Showing Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination) by Krishna Dutta
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Calcutta In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Gnter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image. Full description
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