JUST FOR FUN!!!!!

( NO HARD FEELINGS PLEASE)

U r a true Calcuttan if and only if...

1. Residential Address: 45B comes between 30 and 30A.
2. You end up buying a salwar kameez,after reaching home you realize your friend has a similar one. Next day morning you rush to the shop again to replace it." onyo colour arr designer kichuu nei? eta khub common"
3. Your street has at least one roadside Fuchkawala where you ask for afree FUCHKA..which is obviously more delicious than the previous one.
4. Your answer is "Jani na Dada",when somebody asks you for directions,whether it is to Esplanade, Metro rail, Nandan or Gariahat.
5. You come across a Xerox shop with 'Xerox machine out of order' sign.
6. PCOs also sell Ice creams.
7. Universal Bandh Supporter.
8. you find office goers r better traffic controllers,and you join in to criticise the Traffic man from the bus, and many a times the bus conductor for being indifferent to "ki holo dada driver kei ektu halatei bolun,naholei ticket pherot din rastai hanti"
9. Parents are proud to tell others " Chele Computerer kaaj kore" whether he is a cashier in a departmental store or a software pro or a data entry operator.
10. You have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance inNorth America- software industry.
11. Everytime somebody gives you a piece of good news,you becomefrustrated and the first thing you ask them is 'Shotti? Kibhabe holo?'
12. First day at Book Fair you locate the important stalls like AARAMBAG'S CHICKEN and BENFISH.
13. You call 11 AM "Sokkal\nsokkal.....".\n\n
14. You label your boss as "S***A"\n\n
15. You are 1hr late and you feel you are on time & excuse "bus gulo\njebhabei chalai".\n\n
16. You look at the \'Rs.90 Fixed price\' stand and still ask "15 taka \n..ar ek poisa beshi na..deben to din". and wait for his response. And at\nthe end of 30 mins and a lot of argument u buy it for 85/- ..predominant in\nGariahat.\n\n
17. your friends wont respect u if u havnt been to these HOLY places \n"kire ekhono tantra, barrista, olypub, inox ei jash nei..tor dara jibonei \nkichhu hobei naa"\n\n
18. People mistake you Hindi for Chinese/ Swahili/ Greek. \n\n
19. you have the whole set of Rabindranath\'s works displayed prominently in\nyour drawing room ( of course no one in your family has read more than 6.5\npages of it in the past thirty years). \n\n
20. You proudly proclaim to the world that Calcutta is the center of Indian\nintellegensia, after all the 5 Nobels that India got are all related to Calcutta (Tagore, Teresa, Amartya Sen, Ronald Ross, C.V. Raman- Har Gobind Singh Khurana does not cout as he worked in the US)
21. You claim that Rabindra Sangeet is the best and most original music in the world, and almost all Hindia film music is copied from it. In fact the similarity\nbetween the scores of Rabindra Sangeet and Chopin's work is proof of the genius of the Bengali mind which was copied by all Western composers.
22.You take the permanent role of opposition in every dicussion. Quoting Trotsky and Che' Guevera in a conversation about the stock market and then\npraising Michael Douglass from Wall Street when others talk about Welfare Economics.
23. You still have a childhood crush on Moon Moon Sen.
24. Insist on carrying out a discussion in Bengali when you discover a fello\nCalcuttan among a group of 23 more non- Calcuttans/non-Bongs \n\n
25. You spend hours everyday sitting in your armchair \'giving ADDA
26. You insist on seeing all sorts of incomprehensible movies by Mrinal Sen and\nunknown foreign directors. The more poverty, hopelessness and bizarre metaphors\nthey use, the better the movie is.
27. Worse you try to educate all and sundry as to the true meaning of life as\nshown in these movies, drawing paralles to Berlosconi and Akiro Kurosawa (when you yourself haven't seen any of their works but your cousin living in the\nstates has told you they are good) of to drive your point home.
28. Even after 57 years after Partition you differentiate between BengalI's who\ncame over from the other side and the local people as , "Us and Them"
29. When you stone Sourav Ganguly's home because of losing the first match\nagainst Australia in the World Cup and welcome him back as "Bengal'snPride" the moment he lands in Calcutta
30. Be able to speak for at least an hour and a half on the comparitive virtues\nof hilsa from Padma vis a vis the Ganga"An attempt may be a failure, but there\nshould be no failure in making an attempt"