In Old Calcutta
Oh! Kolkata!
More violent weather hit Kolkata this week, days after Cyclone Amphan - the worst in a century - left millions of people without electricity, telephones, homes, drinking water, all on top of the tragic effects of the current pandemic.
Yet Kolkata is resilient, and eternal. Here are snaps from the photo field trip my dad and I took to Calcutta (still using its colonial name) in November 1968. At that time the city was home to an unimaginable 8 million people, living on overcrowded streets garnished with leftover trappings of the British Raj. I’ve not been there since, have you? What was it like? Why did you go?
