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Kolkata Streets & City Lanes at Night - Street Pictures from North Calcutta

The tiny serpentine lanes are not wider than 12 feet, and somehow they manage to weave in and out of locales & houses in a complex manner reaching out to every house. The norther part of Calcutta (Kolkata) is well known for such lanes lined up with houses & big mansions some over 100 years old. In the evening the lanes take on a different look, part eerie from the low hanging street lights casting shadows on the walls & partly because of the immense business from all the small businesses and factories that run in the alongside buildings.
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This area of North Kolkata is very near to Calcutta’s lifeline, the Ganges. In fact this area, called Sutanuti, was one of the first towns that slowly expanded into the City of Kolkata. In local language, Sutanuti, the name of the place, refers to the tiny household business of weaving cotton yearn. At night the days work is piled up on pick-up trucks & shipped to the city to be auctioned to various textile shops.
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The picture was taken on hand held Nikon D200 with a wide angle lens in available fluorescent light without any flash light. The cropping & minor color temperature correction was done using Adobe Photoshop.

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