Kolkata, Tuesday the 9th of August

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India Picture by degrubenc
Travel story: Kolkata, Tuesday the 9th of August

Breakfast was a thoroughly depressing affair, a few pieces of soggy warmed up bread and the remains of a pre-independence pot of jam (including its further evolution and micro-environment). The tea was Lipton made in China and the staff more preocuppied in the light fixtures of the restaurant. I hurried out to find the town in turmoil, it had struck me the day before that entire houses and streets were painted in red with the old communist symbols of the hammer and sickle. Every house in the... More