Retracing the Past: A Public School & Environs

Napoleon Bonaparte once quoted - 'Public instruction should be the first object of government'. As we look back, nations building themselves from nowhere, it is public education which has always been in focus. And as Napoleon spoke this famous line, years earlier, far away in Calcutta, seeds of it were planted with a vision in mind - to encourage free public education and make it more accessible. This is a story of one such public institution and its environs which had a fascinating journey through centuries, survived it and eventually metamorphosed into a prominent school of today's Kolkata.