[1] There are a number of cheap eateries, foreign currency exchange kiosks and travel agencies in Sudder street.

There is also a building on the turning of Hartford Lane off Sudder Street where Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore lived for a while and penned a few poems.

It is well known how Rabindranath came to write his profoundly moving long poem "Nirjharer Swapnabhanga" in a fit of sudden illumination that had all the qualities of an epiphany.

Sometime in 1881-82 Rabindranath lodged with his brother Jyotirindranath and Kadambari at 10 Sudder Street, Kolkata, just behind Indian Museum.

As I gazed, all of a sudden a lid seemed to fall from my eyes and I found the world bathed in a wonderful radiance, with waves of beauty and joy swelling on every side.