The slim tables topped with Italian marble, the framed list of luminaries and the small alcoves housing garlanded idols exude an antiquated charm. A couple of mounted, antlered stag heads hang from the walls – they’d been mute witnesses to the undercover meetings of M.N. Roy and Pulin Behari Das who hatched strategies to undermine the British rule. Mrigendra Majumdar is the septuagenarian owner who has been running the shop for almost half a century. His father Nihar Majumdar founded the shop in 1918 and closely guarded the covert conferences of the revolutionaries. However, he never joined the discussions lest the police could extract confidential information from him upon interrogation. The British police did have a hunch of the goings-on, and the shop had to bring down its shutters for a few months in 1934. ~ Sugato Mukherjee #paramount #paramountsherbet #northcalcuttacharm #uttorkolkata #boipara #collegestreetboipara #collegesquare #sokolkata #calcuttaheritage #calcuttacacophony #foodporn #kolkataphotography #kolkatastories #kolkata_shoutout #kolkata_sutra #kolkata_igers #kolkatatravelblogger #motog825gshot (at Paramount Sherbat) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgdeLQHvm5s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=