Mehfil | Ceramic Plates and Bowls | Set of 3

A Love Letter to Kolkata
Art by Amrita A | Story by Oindrila Gupta

She grew up in a city where time lingers,
where history settles softly into the present,
wrapped in the quiet grace of simplicity.
With wet hair tied in a square-patterned red and white gamcha,
she’d admire the transom windows,
age-old, weathered, whispering forgotten stories.
In the gari-baranda, chai in hand,
she would drink in the stillness of the city’s hidden corners.
North Kolkata’s addas, where farmers, artisans, thinkers
let conversations flow like endless streams of tea,
the gamcha draped over their shoulders,
a silent witness to thought, creation,
and the rhythm of life in pursuit.
Her mornings stretched into evenings,
fingers tracing the worn carvings on the window frames,
each groove a testament to the city’s roots,
where the past isn’t just remembered, but cherished,
alive in every touch, every breath of the old city.
Her heartbeat found its rhythm
between tradition and the city’s pulse of progress.
Her memories became a love letter,
to a city where history rests close,
but change walks in freely, with open arms.

Hunger makes nights longer, streets colder, and hope harder to hold. Across India, 1.77 million people live without a home, a number that’s likely undercounted.

With this set, you sponsor 10 meals, small anchors of stability in lives too often unmoored. It offers nourishment and a reminder that no one should be invisible in the city’s story.

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