Desi ‘Black Friday’: the changing consumer in Kolkata

For generations, people in Kolkata have been used to frequenting the local ‘bajaar‘ (market) every morning for fresh vegetables, fruits and fish (what is a Bengali without his fish), and the ‘parar moodir dokan’ (roughly translated: the local cornershop) for their grocery needs. For books, you went to College Street or waited for the famous Calcutta Book Fair; for trendy clothings, you would go to New Market or Gariahat, to Burrabuzar for bulk items and so on and so forth.
Now that is changing……..