POC - Every Table, a Story
Watching Kolkata’s Café Culture Grow, One Cup at a Time By Sufia Shaikh I am an avid café-goer. Over the years, visiting cafés has become part of how I experience Calcutta: through its changing neighbourhoods, its food, its people, and the little worlds we create around a table. Sometimes, I go with work waiting on my laptop. Sometimes, I meet someone and discover that a conversation needs more time than we had planned. Sometimes, I simply want a good cup of coffee and somewhere to sit with my thoughts. What keeps bringing me back is the possibility of an ordinary afternoon becoming memorable. “Every sip of coffee holds a little possibility: that we might work together, laugh together, or leave with a story we didn’t have when we arrived.” — Sufia Shaikh The city I watch from a café table Calcutta has always understood the pleasure of staying a little longer. Our culture of adda gives conversation its own importance. A discussion can wander from work to cinema, from relationsh...