Tong Achew

Achipur Chinese Temple and Sugar Trade

BySubhadip Mukherjee September 9, 2020March 8, 2022

You must have read several blogs and articles regarding Achipur so why would you go ahead and read this blog? To start with I took around two years to go through several reference documents and trying to understand the logic behind this whole sugar industry in the first place. There are two different aspects to…

Chinese | Kolkata

Chinese New Year in Kolkata

BySubhadip Mukherjee February 14, 2018March 8, 2022

Calcutta in the 1800 and early 1900 was like the Shanghai and Singapore combined together. It was a major trading hub and people of the world came to this city for trade and commerce. Kolkata once had a significant Chinese population and even though it has drastically decreased over the years its presence still is…