An area of more or less than 1.5 square kilometers, College Street is spreading its beauty, in old and new books under two separate phases. One phase completely includes new books, and the other phase includes mostly old books with a few new books.
The area also clarifies a non-stop 24 hours busy traffic, especially after 1-2 PM; big and small markets with large availability of essential commodities; very high quality copies available in kg-wt. as mentioned in the second part of this story; street shops; useful information; stomach-filling breakfast and lunch, and Mahatma Gandhi Road, a Kolkata Metro Railway Station.
Occasionally or Vacationally; from Durga Puja to Saraswati Puja; from happy Valentine to the great Indian politics, it is impossible to break the traffic rule, or more vividly, the human rule of crowd. If you are 15 minutes away from your destination, you will reach on time, that is 1.5-2 hours after starting your journey !!! I have a huge experience of that for many years. Although some ‘Pothochari’ (crowd-managing specialist), managed to get rid of this crowd with their unique technique of walking, most are helpless.
Despite of all these, most popular writers and their writings are able to fail this ‘mob’ as it is more lovelier than these vacations. Moreover, the book-vendors acquired so much knowledge about books, authors and its contents; it is wonder to say that even highly educated people never heard of these books and authors.
We have a proof of this unbelievable matter; Thomas Edison—the creator of electricity; once a book binder, now his contribution is almost everywhere in our rooms, in the streets, and everywhere.
I have stress; I have strain; I have pain; I have sorrow; I have happiness; I have college street. But overall, I have soul to see the bookworms in the great lengthiness of college street.
I am a science graduate, but never think science without art; yes, science is created from art; by hands first, and now through machines.