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NIGHT WONDER
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About Me
- cluelessnanette
- EX LAWRENCIAN LAWRENCE SCHOOL LOVEDALE NILGIRIS ' EX AIRHOSTESS, INDIAN AIRLINES.
A SHORT HISTORY OF CALCUTTA
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
India's largest city and once the capital (1772-1912) of British India, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is located on the east bank of the Hooghly, a channel of the Ganges, 154 km upstream from the Bay of Bengal. Growing beyond its British colonial foundations, Kolkata assimilated strong European influences to create an amalgam culture that found early expression in the life and works of the 19th-century Bengali elite and its best known figure, Rabindranath Tagore. Kolkatans are said to possess a rare joie de vivre that manifests itself in their penchant for art and culture and a level of intellectual vitality and political awareness unsurpassed in the rest of the country. No other Indian city can draw the kinds of crowds that throng to Calcutta's book fairs, art exhibitions, and concerts. There is a lively trading of polemics on walls, which has led to Kolkata being dubbed the city of posters. But Kolkata thrives amid seemingly insurmountable economic, social, and political problems. For all its vitality, a large number of its residents live in abject conditions, far removed from the rarefied cultural milieu. Many a visitor remarks on the city's air quality, physical decay, and fetid smells. In short, Kolkata remains an enigma to many Indians as well as to foreigners. It continues to puzzle newcomers and to arouse an abiding nostalgia in the minds of those who have lived there.
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- THE ANGLO KIDS
- A ROOM OF HOTEL MARIA
- HOTEL MARIA ( WHITE HALL BOARDING HOUSE}
- AIRHOSTESS
- TRINCAS OF CALCUTTA
- CALCUTTA TRAMS
- THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL MESUEM
- VIEW FROM NO 7 SUDDER STREET GATES,
- THE INDIAN BOTANIC GARDENS CALCUTTA
- look at the smiling kids, they are smiling because...
- The Hogg Market better known as New Market, is a...
- FORT WILLIAMS
- THE RICKSHAW WALLA
- THE HOWRAH BRIDGE I stood on the Bridge at mi...
- the street of my child home
- HOWRAH RAILWAY STATION
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Prinsep monument and Vidyasagar Setu PICTURES
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When I grew up in Whitehall, only 1 bed per room, 1954- 1970
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