Strangely Beloved

Perhaps no city in India has inspired the responses ofove 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 toondon, it has often been written off as a "dying city". But despite - perhaps because of - all its problems, Calcuttansove the city with the illogical passion of trueove.