When Job Charnock made his way towards the unknown world, no one could predict that he would go native in the then Bengal. He started to eat, drink and make merry like a Bengali, and even smoked from a hokum pipe like a pucca Bengali. The villages which formed Kolkata of Charnock's times may not be there, but thousands of such hamlets can still be found throughout Bengal and India. Thanks to the East India Company, urbanization was initiated amid the lush green landscape dotted with rivers that ran like veins and arteries. Mango, berries, jackfruit along with flowers like shiuli, palash and lotus and fertile land around the Ganges saw the birth and bountiful growth and development of one of the most populated cities in the world, Kolkata.