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Friday, November 30, 2007

A Legal Matter

Yesterday I had to visit a lawyer whose chamber was next to Kolkata High Court. I have come to believe in my first professional experience with lawyers that they just complicate simple things and then charge you a whole lot of money for their contribution to giving you stress.

Anyway the visit to Old Post Office Road next to the Kolkata High Court was quite enlightening. The pavements are lined with typists tapping away at the keyboards of their age old typewriters. Young and old lawyers chatting over tea at corner tea stalls in their black robes. Then there are some of them scurrying around with files and some of them sitting with typists getting some documents typed. I also noticed that every little piece of real estate is utilised to its optimum, like the Photocopy Shop which was housed in a hole in the wall. Cars are parked four or five lanes parallel and it’s a wonder how anyone gets their cars out especially when even I couldn’t pass between any of them.

But the best thing is the line of food stalls. Just seeing the variety of food being prepared and served on the street side warrants a visit someday soon for me to actually try some of their stuff. A week long fast would be good preparation for my visit here to indulge in a day long food festival.

All in all the area around Kolkata High Court is a place where people are doing brisk business be it food, legal, photocopying, stationery or then just the parking guys. Everybody is making money!

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