Park Lane Cemetery caretakers

These two were totally charming and were exactly like the old men in the balcony on The Muppet Show - one was deaf, the other missing most of his teeth - they were like an old married couple and had me in stiches. Well, except when they were warning me about every scam and horror story in Calcutta! I loved them - just wish they lived in London, so I could take them out for tea every week.

Calcutta Twilight Zone

August 13th 2008
( 20 photos) So...Calcutta. Don't know where to start. It's like nowhere I've ever seen in India, totally unique. That's the good part. Arrived after midnight and it seemed half the population were out on the streets - sleeping on sacks of vegetables, loading trucks in the middle of the road, walking around, drinking tea, chatting - ....the city that never sleeps....or is that New York? It's so ... 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

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