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Heritage connection

Bengali heritage

Kolkata on the East trip hits differently if you have Bengali heritage. College Street, the intellectual cafés, and Durga Puja if you time it right. The city that produced Tagore and Ray isn’t just history, it still feels like a living version of that culture.

Kolkata opens this route with three full days at the start, built around the Hooghly riverfront, College Street’s book district and the Kumartuli potters preparing clay idols for Durga Puja. For Bengali-heritage travellers, it carries the same weight that Amritsar carries for Punjabis on the North trip.

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