Hooghly & trams always keep inviting me and now your photos have given it a new dimension. I am waiting for the opportunity to visit this place.

Your photographs are a treat for the eyes and writing very lucid. I have been to Calcutta in 1990 and my own impression of the city is not that grand. I find it a dirty city, full of poverty and with lots of people all around.

I think there is something spiritual in that place too. That is why you can see Mother Teresa, RamaKrishna Paramhansa or may be the poverty around keeps one aware that what he is doing is still not enough.

When I was in class X, XII they introduced an excerpt from Mahatma Gandhi at the beginning of the book, in which Gandhiji responded that how he keep the proud far away from himself. And he shared that whenever he feel proud about what he has done, he simply think about the poorest face he has met and then he think that has he been able to make any change in their life and that thinking was enough for him to propel himself for the next days of his karma, without feeling anything GREAT about himself.

I find “City of Joy” a very sad book, but this is also true that the poverty or richness life keeps on moving and there are joys and sorrows in everyone’s life.