The Epic City [electronic resource] : The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Choudhury, Mr Kushanava2017
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Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta.When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown. Once the capital of the British Raj, and then India's industrial and cultural hub, by 2001 Calcutta was clearly past its prime. Why, his relatives beseeched him, had he returned? Surely, he could have moved to Delhi, Bombay or Bangalore, where a new Golden Age of consumption was being born.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017
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1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9781408888902
Language:
English
BRN:
2773425