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I came here to look for a particular grave - James Achilles Kirkpatrick - but he isn't buried here after all. The two old men gave me an address where I might find a memorial, but said that hundreds of people come every year to ask for the grave...

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

18th March 2011

Rangan Datta
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Kirkpatrick's memorial
Hi, Zena, nice collection of photos. The photos are of the South Park Street Cemetery, not park lane cemetery. Kirkpatrick was buried in North Park Street Cemetery, which no longer exists. Kirkpatrick has a memorial at the St John's Church in Calcutta. Here is a photo of the memorial: http://www.rangan-datta.info/photo/viewpic.php?gallery=41&id=200

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