India - Kolkata (Calcutta) (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet


India’s third-largest city is a daily festival of human existence, simultaneously noble and squalid, cultured and desperate, decidedly futuristic while splendid in decay. Locally, Kolkata is regarded as India’s intellectual, artistic and cultural capital.

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- watch clay goddesses come to life in the sculptors’ studios of atmospheric Kumartuli

- ride a boat on the Hooghly River to Mullik Ghat Flower Market

- ponder the architectural brilliance of the Victoria Memorial, British Raj’s majestic tribute

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