Strangely Beloved

Perhaps no city in India has inspired the responses of love and disgust as sharply as Calcutta, now Kolkata, where the old and the new, the beautiful and the squalid coexist side by side. Once a global city second only to London, it has often been written off as a "dying city". But despite - perhaps because of - all its problems, Calcuttans love the city with the illogical passion of true love.

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