Kolkata - Life Insurance Building

Visiting Kolkata (Calcutta) - Feb. 11, 2006

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February 11th 2006
Kolkata, so far, is a pleasant disappointment to us; it does not live up to its advance notice of a chaotic city, down at the heels; at least not seen through the up beat way its people go about their lives. It might be we can be sanguine about the city, because we chose to stay in a neighbourhood rather than centre town, and that we have not made it to downtown proper as yet; it could also be ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more