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| Calcutta the gate way to the mystie east. The city which no one indifferent fascinating, effevescent, teeming with life, peoples, Cultures In the winter, fine weather and gaiety in the summer, a haze of heat diffused through tropical green and in the monsoon, a rush of rain. Calcutta is the capital of the eastern state of west Bengal today. Calcutta a creation of British rule in India, is today a teeming crowded City combining the old and the new. On one side you have buildings reminiscent of British Rule, but the bastion of the British Raj till Delhi took over in 1912. Centres of literature and the arts. architectural heir to colonial British styles, with modern Indians own touch to give it continuing relevance. a great bustle of commerce and Industry. A port city on the river Hooghly as it flows generously under soaring Howrah Bridge. A vast hinterland of Industry jute, coal, and steel. A crowded city around triple lungs of the Maidan on one side, the Rabindra sarovar on the o |
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