India - Kolkata (Calcutta) (PDF Chapter)
India’s second-biggest city is a daily festival of human existence, simultaneously noble and squalid, cultured and desperate, futuristic while splendid in decay. Locally, Kolkata is regarded as India’s intellectual, artistic and cultural capital.
watch clay goddesses come to life in the atmospheric neighbourhood of Kumartuli
visit colourful stalls selling tropical blossoms at the Mullik Ghat Flower Market
ponder the architectural brilliance of the British Raj’s tribute to Queen Victoria at the Victoria Memorial
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