Sleepless near Park Street

The late-night revellers on Kolkata's Park Street, the city's popular destination for party goers, seem to be giving local politicians sleepless nights, quite literally. State legislators from various districts of West Bengal, who stay at an MLA hostel on neighbouring Kyd Street, complain that they are having trouble getting some sleep at night because of noisy Park Street. So much so, that a group of MLAs have formally registered a complaint with the Speaker of the West Bengal legislative Assembly Biman Banerjee on this matter. Funny, Park Street has been a party destination for decades and no one's complained, so it is possible to wonder at the sleep patterns of this generation of MLAs.