Barclays Bank

The address is a bit of a mouthful. We are at 16 16 Rani Rashmoni Ghat Road. It is in the 2nd Bijpur area of Halisahar. This is in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. The pin code is 743134. We are quite close to the river. You can feel the moisture in the air almost every day. Barclays Bank is in an old building here. The walls are thick. The paint is peeling a bit near the bottom because of the dampness. We have a few wooden tables and some old fans that creak when they spin. The road outside is narrow. It gets busy when there is a festival at the ghat. We can hear the bells and the people walking down to the water. It is a long way from the main city of Kolkata. We take the local train to get here. The walk from the station takes about ten minutes. We have a small cupboard where we keep our lunch boxes. The office has a very local feel to it. It is not like the big glass buildings you see in the news. We know the people who live in the houses nearby. Sometimes the power goes out in the afternoon. We just wait for it to come back on. It is a slow and steady kind of place.