In a city that treats its past as living memory, Kolkata witnessed history reborn as a 200-year-old aristocratic palace transformed into the state’s first private super-speciality hospital housed within a Grade-I heritage landmark.Kolkata has always worn its history on its sleeve.
Its crumbling cornices, collonaded courtyards and moss-streaked balconies are not relics but living witnesses.
But for the first time, this heritage has found new custodians in the healthcare industry.
On Thursday evening, a 200-year-old Grade-I heritage palace — once home to Bengali aristocratic families in the pre-Independence era — reopened its doors as the Charnock Lohia Hospital, a 250-bed modern medical facility housed within Greco-Roman grandeur.Red, ritual and remembranceRed was the colour of the day.
Women in red-and-white saris lined the bonedi staircase, shankha shells in hand, as the façade glowed under carefully placed lights.
