Kolkata, June 2 -- The City of Joy tended to miss a heart beat on Monday the first day of "unlock 1.0" even as things degenerated into a mega mix-up when citizens threw all cautions to the wind thronging public places and boarding packed up public buses-that ran far and few between -in mad desperation to reach their work places.
While people spilled over to the streets thronging market places in thousands at the end of 67 days confinement, the enforcers of law were hardly to be seen around, sources complained.
"We have been forced to come out of our houses taking great risk on our lives as we have been asked by our respected offices to join work. But here we have no adequate public transport because the large majority of public buses are ...