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Big Fat Family

In what could be the largest family in the world, men live with dozens of wives and scores of children, and all survive in enviable peace.

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3 Sep 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
Cuisines by the Sidewalks

When you have around 145,000 street vendors serving over 230 varieties of dishes to nearly 10 million customers daily, it is a phenomenon by itself.

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30 Jul 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
No More Only Red, Comrade!

Are blue- and orange-coloured hammer and sickle symbols in sync with the CPM’s ideology?

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27 May 2010
Those whom Naxals Kill

While the country bellyaches about the Naxal menace, who speaks for the poverty-stricken victims out there in the wilderness?

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20 May 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
The Beauty Beneath

For those adventurous enough, there are over 1,300 subterranean caves to explore in Meghalaya’s underbelly.

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7 Apr 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
Fit for Kings

It’s not everyday that a luxury train earns itself the right to be christened the Maharajas’ Express.

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24 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
The Life of a Street

Few other streets in the world house the pageant of life Park Street does. And perhaps fewer still have changed character as dramatically as this 250 years old Kolkata landmark.

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31 Dec 2009
Lost Christmas

A town which once had a significant Anglo-Indian community is now a picture of desolation.

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23 Dec 2009
Home away from Home

A peek into the storied 226-year-old mansion in central Calcutta that goes by Fairlawn Hotel.

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16 Oct 2009
India’s Worst Land Grab

Rajarhat New Town’s ‘modernity’ is a façade for injustices that cancelling an odd infotech park cannot undo

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9 Sep 2009 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
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