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India Today - Charnock City (Sunday, May 29, 2009)

Calcutta Walks is a company that does exactly what it says—it takes you for a walk around Kolkata, getting you up, close and personal with the various facets of the city continue reading on India Today

Mission to wipe out poll clutter (Monday, May 18, 2009)

Instead of watching one more deadline pass unhonoured, a group of 10 students from St Joseph’s College (Bowbazar) embarked on the clean-up drive helped by Calcutta Walks, a “socially responsible” company that takes tourists around Calcutta’s heritage zones.
continue reading on The Telegraph

The New York Times - A Walk in Calcutta (Sunday, May 03, 2009)

ON a rainy day in the late 17th century, an enterprising agent of the British East India Company named Job Charnock sailed along the Hooghly River,....
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Calcutta Walks adds Park Street to its list (Sunday, November 30, 2008)

Calcutta Walks, which has been organising walking tours to different parts of the city for the last one year, today added Park Street to the list of historical roads on their itinerary. Some of the other walks they conduct are in the Dalhousie Square, Chowringhee, Sovabazar, Bow Barracks to Burra Bazar and Kumartuli.
continue reading on Indian Express

Walking down the heritage trail (Saturday, November 30, 2008)

Yezdi Dastur could barely hold back his tears as he re-entered' the library of St Xavier's College on Saturday morning. Memories of a bygone era flooded back as the 73-year-old Xaverian looked around. It was a different Park Street that Dastur remembered from his college days. The buildings were mostly the same, but not the crowd and the traffic that too so early in the morning.
continue reading on The Times of India

Tourists and locals rediscover Kolkata through walks (Thursday, October 30, 2008)

In a bid to acquaint the tourists with the nook and corner of the metropolis Kolkata, a group of youngsters in West Bengal has started a heritage walk called 'Calcutta Walks'. Every morning, tourists put on their walking shoes and enjoy the nooks and corners of Kolkata with the explorers of 'Calcutta Walks'.
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Walk the Line (Saturday, October 4, 2008)

While every Puja-crazy, pandal-hopping Calcuttan’s heart beats to the rhythm of the dhakis, his blood pressure shoots up every time he drives into the chaotic traffic. So give yourself a break and walk the talk this year. Here’s something to make things even more interesting. Talk some friends into it and make reservations for a heritage walk with Calcutta Walks.
continue reading on The Telegraph

A stroll through time (Sunday, June 8, 2008)

The city boasts some of the best examples of 18th and 19th century British architecture along with what remains of ‘Old Calcutta’ and its zamindari legacy. There are better-known walks, but the one we recommend will take you through the serpentine lanes of old Kolkata.

The North Calcutta Walking Tour goes through meandering lanes and courtyards of various noble houses. This tour also includes a visit to the house of Rabindranath Tagore at Jorasanko and the majestic Marble Palace before ending with a trip to the historic Coffee House...
continue reading on Business Today

Green coconuts and history (Thursday, May 22, 2008)

Cash — waiting to be netted — may not exactly be flying around Calcutta today the way, they say, it once used to, but every brick of our built heritage is worth its weight in gold.

Three young city-based entrepreneurs have discovered this truth, and have since last November started “walks” down the memory-haunted older quarters of the city, meant for tourists as well as other interested persons...
continue reading on The Telegraph

Road to remember: A walk to explore Kolkata's heritage (Friday, March 28, 2008)

If you believe that a walk can change the way you view a city you are visiting or reside in, you will have an opportunity to do so the next time you are in Kolkata.

Calcuttawalks, an initiative of a group of young entrepreneurs, gives you the opportunity to you breathe in the essence of the first capital of the British Raj, better known as the City of Palaces and the City of Joy...
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Hidden treasures (March 13, 2008)

Tobu Tumi Sundari Koto, Kolkata (You are still so beautiful Kolkata). If singer Usha Uthup’s melodious voice inspires you to look at this city of contradictions with fondness then take a step further...
continue reading on India Today, Simply Kolkata

Walks of Life (Tuesday, August 14, 2007)

Kolkata exists in fragments for most visitors to the city. If you happen to be a well-heeled visitor, then Kolkata is most likely to be about the air-conditioned confines of your hotel room or restaurants with an occasional flash of the cityscape seen through the zooming car. If you are a budget traveler it’s about negotiating overwhelming crowds everywhere — from the prying coolies of the Howrah Station to the (in) famous taxi drivers whose vocabulary consists of only one word — no...
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