Indian Museum (Jadu Ghar) Kolkata (Calcutta)

27 Jawaharlal Nehru Rd, Kolkata (Calcutta) , West Bengal, India - Phone: 91 33 2249 9902

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    Kolkata - Stew Chasing a Cab for 13p

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    Yesterday we flew to Kolkata as we didn't fancy the 12 hour train. We hadn't yet booked accommodation, and so after being hassled by locals and seeing a dirty hostel full of graffiti we found a nice hotel. At night we walked along one of the main streets and browsed the market stalls, but it was so humid we couldn't stand it.

    This morning …

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    Kolkata's easily worth a day

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    I wasn't sure what to expect with Kolkata. Originally I didn't plan to even visit, but when I decided to come back to Bodhgaya, it made sense to fly there. I heard it was pretty intense with the poverty. During the division that created what is now Bangladesh, what was then Calcutta got flooded with refugees.

    That was evident when I went …

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    Welcome to India

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    ... up to grab their goodies - quite a sight at 2 am. We were already apprehensive about what to expect in India after hearing so much. When we arrived in Kolkata at 2:30 am the sites and smells (stench) were beyond what we had ever imagined. Each ...

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    We just feel it in our toes: wet, wet, wet.

    ... amusing but admirable Asiatic Society, where bureaucracy and paper pushing pushed their limits. We have also sampled some of Kolkata's non-Colonial hangover sights: a crap Bollywood comedy - we made a wrong choice, but it proved a ...

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    ... large classical complex that had not been maintained very well.  It was essentially a natural history museum with a few galleries of paintings documenting India’s heritage.  The first exhibit featured some interesting fossils, but most of ...

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    ... drives the same car (white for personal cars and yellow for cabs, but we found this only to be true in Kolkata); cows WERE everywhere, eating the scraps off of garbage in the streets; children were being bathed in the gutters; crows attached ...

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    Mother Teresa in Calcutta

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    I had the great privilege of attending mass and taking communion at the Mother Teresa Hospice in Calcutta.  It was very poignant to be in the same room with probably 120 men, all dressed in comfortable and matching bed cloths, lying in various ...

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    Can anyone find a good materials engineer?

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    ... idea came.  So collaboration is happening, and that's exciting. One thing I've seen both here in Kolkata and in New Delhi's Science Museum are wonderful galleries on math and numbers.  Indians are justifiably proud of their contributions to the ...

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    Kolkata Missive 1

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    ... DR Congo, is intrepid and has gone out nonetheless to meet a photo journalist friend whom she met while trekking.  They will go to the India Museum, and then to have lunch.  He was in the Gaza strip for 6 weeks and is equally hale and hardy, having had ...

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    Leaving Kolkata

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    ... . Zum Glueck habe ich keinen erlebt, allerdings den 18ten All India CPI Congress (Communist Party of India) mit jeder Menge Kommunisten. Diese haben u.a. das indische Museum gestuermt (10 Rs Eintritt fuer Inder ist ja billig (1 Euro = 59 Rs), 150 Rs fuer ...

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    Northern Highlights

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    ... . I had a bus to catch at 8am back to Calcutta, so i spent most of the trip trying to sleep. When i got back to Calcutta i got some accommodation and rested for the better part of the day. I still didn't really eat anything except a couple of banana's. I ...

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    A Holi-day on Holiday

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    ... street sellers and open street urinals quickly shatter that illusion, bringing you abruptly back to down-town India. For its size Calcutta really is a pretty friendly city and if you could endure the hordes of people a pleasant place ...