India, April 27 -- Sujoy Dhar spends barely 48 hours in Prague - and the Golden City of a Thousand Spires refuses to let go

We arrived in Prague on a wintry March night, rain falling in cold curtains, our rideshare driver depositing us at entirely the wrong address. Before the irritation could settle in, a man came running through the dark with an umbrella. He was our host. That small, unhesitating kindness - a stranger dashing into the rain for guests he'd never met - turned out to be the perfect introduction to this city.

Called the Golden City of a Thousand Spires, and sometimes simply the Heart of Europe, Prague is a place of almost theatrical grandeur - retro trams rattling down cobbled streets, Gothic spires needling a grey sky, B...