It s mid-morning and the two-kilometre stretch from Rashbehari Avenue to Gariahat Market is bustling with activity.
Dotted with saree shops and hawker stalls that sell everything, from hairpins, hangers and towels to hosiery, mobile phone covers and kurtas, this is one of South Kolkata s busiest shopping areas.
And it is beginning to wake up to the Paytm crisis.
My boyhood was spent against the discordant streetside music of trams. We lived on Chowringhee Road, the axial thoroughfare of Calcutta, and a major route on the tramways network. We were on the fifth floor.
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