The Chit Chatter
No other city engages in as much chatter as Calcutta does. You will always find groups of people sitting around discussing something or the other, whether at roadside tea stalls or in the many coffee shops strewn around the city (not to mention the famous Calcutta Coffee House) or at street corners, neighbourhood grocery stores, parks, buses and other public places. Usually the topics vary from location to location, like let's say, the elderly who gather at the local tea shop for their daily dose of adda would be discussing state elections, while the Kaki maas at the grocery store would be debating inflation in loud, animated voices. But never in my life have I seen just one topic being discussed, that too at such great lengths, at every street corner, every tea shop, every adda joint. And that topic is: the chit fund scam.