Kolkata Chronicles: Where Streets Become Rivers & Humanity Shines 🌊✨

As India's fourth-largest metropolis, Kolkata greeted me not just with crowds, but with literal "mountains and seas" of monsoon water! A light breakfast drizzle transformed the 300-year-old city into Venice of the East overnight. Locals casually rolled up trousers and waded through knee-deep streets like aquatic pros. 🩳💦 The Water Paradox:Roadside pipes gush nonstop while entire blocks flood 🚿 Families bathe and wash clothes openly by the curb (many colonial-era homes lack running water)Come dusk, women gracefully shower in saris under municipal taps - a daily ballet of survival 🩱💃 Mother Teresa's Oasis: Amid the watery chaos, Missionaries of Charity glows like a pearl. This impossibly tidy compound (the HQ of 200+ global shelters) proves how small spaces can hold infinite love. The Nobel medal here seems almost redundant beside the real treasure: volunteers' radiant smiles. ☘️✝️ Monsoon Hacks for Travelers: 1️⃣ Pack quick-dry sandals - your feet WILL get wet 2️⃣ Sunrise walks reveal the city's most poetic reflections (literally!) 🌅 3️⃣ Visit Kumartuli - where artisans craft clay gods atop floating platforms #Kolkata#Mother Teresa's Oasis#India#travel guide#trip diary#India guide