The planning for the trip started 3-4 months back when Santanu had unofficially invited me for his marriage with Treena at Kolkata. Since the marriage was scheduled on Thursday August 5th 2010, we thought of utilizing the following weekend to explore places in and around Kolkata. As part of planning, we had booked round-trip flight tickets from Mumbai to Kolkata three months in advance! Initially, Sunderbans was there in our itinerary but many people advise us not to go there during Monsoons, Himanshu made an alternate plan of going to Puri and Konark.
