Another thing we have always associated with Calcutta is its artistic credentials. All the artists we knew, and knew of, 20 years ago, were Bengali, so it cannot be other than that Calcutta is the capital of Indian art, at least its modern and contemporary art. The first signs are indeed positive, I discover the … Read more
Because I have so many pictures of the fabulous, if deteriorating buildings of the Calcutta colonial era, I have added an extra entry, on some of the structures that didn’t make the main entry on Kolkata. I could have included many more… and there is more to Kolkata (2)
Somehow I always had the impression that Kolkata – or Calcutta, as it used to be called – is the most chaotic Indian city of all. The old centre of Delhi was busy, when we lived there 20 years ago, and Mumbai, I recall, was a nightmare negotiating. And on this trip we experienced Guwahati, … Read more