The streets of Calcutta Kolkata give a fascinating history of the metropolis. They are in some cases tortuous to the pedestrians by their cork-screw nature and serpentine courses. They are no less taxing to the antiquarian from their primitively. No city in the world can claim to perpetuate the names of humblest of the humble of the society like cooks, barbers and washer men, side by side with cultural social political leaders of India who were the sons of this City of Intellectuals which included three Nobel Laureates.