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14 & 14/1 Sudder St Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, 700016, 33-2249-1875

Hello everyone, I have successfully made it to Kolkata (Calcutta). The 32 hour train journey was quite long, but not as bad as a 10 hour bus ride in the Himalayas. I was in class 2AC which was the nicest class on this train. I had a upper berth which is kind of like being in solitary confinement! No windows from my area but it was really fun to go between the train cars while the train is moving and just watch what goes by outside. Got to the train station and saw thousands of people going ev...
Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India quirkGood flight... really good food on Air India....cramped but that's to be expected... India.... how to describe it? An assault on your senses. The noise is deafening... people honk constantly. There is NO space...little space to walk because of the masses of people, children, dogs, crows... people have "homes" right on the roads and sidewalks and you'll see people squatting over a fire cooking dinner as the children play nearby. There are concrete 'pits' where people urinate and outdoor bathin...
Kolkata, India veggirl57Hello all..... spent yesterday at a planetarium whose greatest thing was providing us a respite from the heat and crowds... it 'looked' like a planetarium but was more like a slide show on one side of the wall. Still, it was a relief to get someplace cool. While waiting, I was able to talk to some Indians... one woman who was quite talkative and friendly who said she'd been in some Bollywood films as an actor and dancer. Very pretty, newly married at 18, a "love marriage," and lives, of cours...
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We had a driver for the weekend who drove like an actual mad man!! The drive was bumpy and scary when we driving towards the oncoming traffic, it got the adrenaline going. The hotel looked nice from the outside but damp and dirty would sum it up. The beach was lovely and had nice walks along the sea dipping our feet in but kept our clothes on - all the women went in the sea with their saris on. Saw ...
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Calcutta, West Bengal, India tanmoyrf... skinny and missing plenty of teeth, which is typical for anyone who hasn't risen to the middle class here (and by the way that counts for about 800 million out of 1.165 billion people total). Anyway, these artists paint stories (in sequence frames as in comic books) and then they sing (yes, sing!) out the story being depicted. I couldn't understand their lanuage but the music had a lovely melody. The works I bought were about $2-8 each, and these paintings take a month to make! Most ...
Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India jameybarrows... to be back, this time without the after effects of Hep E. Last time, I never managed to see the gardens around the Victoria memorial, they were pretty good. Across the road is St Paul's, so we ticked it off of the list again. We didn't bother with the observatory after the last debacle so we kept on walking !!! The next day, we went back to Kalighat, where they sacrafice goats. They had changed the set up ...
Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India uncle_davros... pluralism. In the library I found quite an interesting book entitled "Problems of Religious Pluralism" by John Hicks, a Presbyterian Minister where he compares religions - particularly Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhism. He compared the saints of each religion and concluded that they produced similar good for the world. He compared the bad actions in the name of each of these religions and concluded that they were pretty much equally bad. He pointed out that ...
Kolkata (Calcutta), India martysb... turned 18 they had money to buy a small plot of land or set up a small business. A fantastic idea and one of a kind. There are so many opportunities to help in this city and i would definitely like to return. Therefore instead of feeling sad that we are moving on, i instead just look forward to returning and i certainly will. This place has definitely had an impact on us, like no other place we have visited ...
Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India limi07... I felt totally safe, it was a small ally where no one was, and its India, you can't expect anything else. eventually, i mentioned that we should empty out our pockets and see if we can construct a plan to get into the guest house (i said this as a joke because of the book that I'm reading) but it turns out that the girl had a cell phone as well as the phone number of the guest house and so we simply called up stairs and he came down and opened the gate. Hope all is well. Tslil
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