India 2002 - Part One: Calcutta

"Piles of marigold garlands near the Horwah Bridge in Calcutta"

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Travel story: India 2002 - Part One: Calcutta

Could there be a city with a worse reputation than Calcutta? Just tell people you are going there and watch their faces. First, there's the business about the Black Hole. My friends seem to think it meant Calcutta was a black hole, instead of being a reference to an infamous detention site where many British soldiers died.



Then there is the late Mother Teresa and the poor. While there is no missing the families that are living on the streets in Calcutta, they have... More