Snippets from The Greens...

2009 started off with the Post #220 and this is post #221. It had been a long stroll over the Kolkata Greens. Some call it Brigade Parade ground, some call it the Maidan which in the colloquial language means the field.
The eve of new year started from there. It was smog all around, but amidst the incessant resistance from the auto-rickshaw union to go against the Government and Judicial norms to modify their three wheelers, the green lungs of Calcutta announced its importance to go with the new amendments. The pollution have eaten away most of the scenic beauty of the place. Not to mention the ever wandering fauna, the Aves and the grasshoppers...which yesterday felt so lost in the dense mist that covered all around. The temperature was dropping steeply. My wait continued into the evening, when suddenly an idea about the smog hit land and the need to have the new upgraded vehicles on the Kolkata roads hit my conscience and I came forth with this picture. The beauty cant be ignored, amidst the gray... atleast you can have a glimpse of the most beautiful palace in the City of Palaces and City of Joy, Kolkata (Calcutta).