Photos by Som of Calcutta Bazaar - slushy like melting snow and loud like an auction house ... go for the fresh produce and a verbal combat with the hawkers!
For those of us who only buy their fish and poultry from the butcher’s counter at the grocery supermarket, the sights of a fish market in Kolkata, is an assault on our visual senses. There are no back rooms for fish gutting and cleaning. Everything is in plain view. Row after row of open stalls with thatched roof and cemented floors. Large machetes bloodied with fish entrails, fish guts and scales pile high. There is fish, blood, scales, water as far as eyes can see - which admittedly is not very far in a crowded bazaar.
For a more complete description of Kolkata fish market, read on: http://locomotoring.net/2008/06/05/dads-gone-fishing/
For those of us who only buy their fish and poultry from the butcher’s counter at the grocery supermarket, the sights of a fish market in Kolkata, is an assault on our visual senses. There are no back rooms for fish gutting and cleaning. Everything is in plain view. Row after row of open stalls with thatched roof and cemented floors. Large machetes bloodied with fish entrails, fish guts and scales pile high. There is fish, blood, scales, water as far as eyes can see - which admittedly is not very far in a crowded bazaar.
For a more complete description of Kolkata fish market, read on: http://locomotoring.net/2008/06/05/dads-gone-fishing/
Butcher at the market. Tree trunk serves as the butcher's block. Young goats hanging in the foreground.
Butcher at the market. Tree trunk serves as the butcher's block. Young goats hanging in the foreground.