As we begin to recover from the devastating pandemic and the sudden loss of lives, through this walk, we will try to relate to the experiences of the life and times of similar uncertainty in 18th and 19th century Calcutta, in the context of our own contemporary times.
One of the oldest and largest cemeteries of the colonial era, the South Park Street Cemetery houses graves the likes of which include Sir William Jones, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Colesworthey Grant, as well as the tombstone of Walter Landor Dickens, the second son of Charles Dickens.
There are also several other known and unknown graves of varied ages from the colonial era, with their own individual fascinating stories and experiences about living and dying in 18th/19th-century Calcutta. While talking about the many known as well as unknown personalities of those times, we would talk about the celebration of Life that went hand-in-hand with devastation of Death.
