Calcutta Walks adds Park Street to its list

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. Iftekhar Ahsan, founder member of the walk, said Park Street is one of the most interesting and fascinating streets of the city, and a trip down this road could never get boring. 8220;Interestingly, Park Street was known as the Burial Ground road, and the place used to be marshes. There were settlements in North Kolkata and Chowringhee, but not here,8221; said Ahsan.