In the early eighties of last century, I spent a very enjoyable three years of my studenthood at the Presidency College (Kolkata), which was located in the heart of the booktown of the city, with numerous stores of new and used books and many publishing houses around that area. Also, just at a stone throw distance across the main gate of the campus was the Coffee House, famous for its reputation that the best of the intelectuals come there to energize their creative minds. This Summer when I visited my hometown, I made a trip to that coffee house after almost twenty-five years. The place didn't change. In contrast with the new extravagant malls coming up all around the city these days, the Coffee House still holds on to its rustic appearence with walls of faded paint, oldish tables and chairs, ceiling fans hanging from cross-rods and spinning at their full speed trying to cool down the humid hot air. The waiters are in attires that will remind you of British era, with wide buckled belts around their waist and fanfolds in their turbans. I set the camera as 1600 ISO, set my 12mm wide-angle at its widest aperture on my Canon digital SLR camera, and took this picture from the mezzanine level to get a birds eye view of the main floor of the place. Here are the links to the photopages of the past weeks : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 71, 72, 73, 74, 75. Visit the Most Recent Photo Page.