Kolkata

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I spent about a week in total in Kolkata, visiting the Victoria Memorial, Motherhouse and all the sites. My first impressions were it's big, it's dirty and men still run barefoot here pulling rickshaws - quite shocking. But West Bengalis are very proud of the city's culture, and I I think I glimpsed just a little of the 'other' side of the city, but I must admit the dirt here is worse than anywhere else I have been. Anyway, some nice shops and I met a few interesting people.

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Photos

Kolkata church
very English

Homes on Sudder St
people living under plastic sheets at the side of the road

Park St cemetry - gravestone 2
I particularly like the part about how he civilised a Savage Race of Mountaineers who for Ages had existed in a state of Barbarism....!