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‘The intention (of the puja pandals) is not so much to entertain as to disorient and astonish; to tap into the Bengali’s appetite for the bizarre, the uncanny.’

— Amit Chaudhuri Calcutta: Two Years in The City (2013)

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‘Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.’

Calcutta: Two Years in The City (2013)

History is always lying before you, unnoticed: till you suddenly see it, as we do now.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Trenches and mounds of dust everywhere give the city a strange bombed-out look.

A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)

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