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Calcutta. A city of 14,000 000 people, and one of the most vibrant and interesting cities in the world, and typically for India very hospitable too. Indians are beautiful people. If you like... more

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  • 63 of 63 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 anonymili

    Member since 10/10/2002

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    5 Stars "City of Joy" brings "Joy" to shoppers like me Review with images 29/06/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Lovely food, lovely people, a shoppers paradise...

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too hot at almost any time of year & traffic's a nightmare

    A born and bred Londoner (British Indian) I visited Calcutta as a child and remember disliking it immensely because of the heat and apart from being spoilt by relatives I couldn't wait to get back to London. I didn't visit again till January 1998 for 2 weeks when I enjoyed my trip and with one thing and another didn't get to go back until December 2003 and since then I've been back in 2004, 2005 and 2007, 2009 and 2010/11 usually for 2 or 3 weeks. Are you sitting comfortably? This is a long one… Some facts for you to digest firstly, to give you an idea about Calcutta in general: • It was ... more
  • 55 of 55 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    LICARUS

    5 Stars A SHINING LIGHT IN A BLACK HOLE 05/02/2001
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    Calcutta.......a wonderful city, with every kind of person you could wish to meet and some of them whom you wouldn't, and plenty of them! I spent some time here about 4 years ago and my first impression on landing at the airport, was the SMELL. There is nothing quite like it on earth. It hits you before anything else, including the heat, when you step out into the street! Imagine your nostrils being assaulted by the worst and the best smells you can imagine and multiply that by a thousand, and you are somewhere near to the smell that greeted me on my arrival. The second thing to strike me on ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Jarrac

    5 Stars Calcutta (India)......................Kolkata Review with images 04/04/2008
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    Advantages Advantages Amazingly hospitable, Great people, Historical British architecture, Great transport links, Good food .

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Racist overcharging of foreign visitors. Third world government for a first rate people .

    Calcutta. A city of 14,000 000 people, and one of the most vibrant and interesting cities in the world, and typically for India very hospitable too. Indians are beautiful people. If you like architecture, its a living museum of British architecture with Howrah railway station and bridge, the biggest lighthouse(Shahid Minar) I've ever seen, slap bang in the centre......Tagore House, The amazing Marble Palace(free entrance), the old writers building on Dalhousie Square and best of all the Victoria Memorial. A huge white building not too dissimilar to the White House in size and in looks. Then ... more
  • 192 of 192 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    rishmitra

    4 Stars I LOVE CALCUTTA (KOLKATA) 16/09/2004
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    Advantages Advantages BEAUTIFUL, CHEAP, helpful people, cultural, colourful

    Disadvantages Disadvantages dirty, crowded, old. hot and humid.

    Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) is the capital of the state of West Bengal located in East of India. It’s a very populated city but filled with culture, tradition and history. It has many of it buildings crumbling and streets smelling, which might make you think that it is a filthy city. But after you spend some time, you’ll realise that the city has been unfairly defamed. If you try to know it deeper, you’ll realise why it has been accredited as the cultural capital of India. It has some of the finest remnants of British Raj in India being the capital of British India till the beginning ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    cyrano

    5 Stars Welcome to the City of Joy.. 07/09/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You'll never forget it

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You may never want to remember it

    There are 15 million people in Calcutta, and they all seemed to be in my train carriage when I took the underground there recently. Often neglected by visitors coming to India, too afraid to brave it's chaos, poverty and pollution, Calcutta is the kind of place that will tattoo itself to the inside of your eyeballs, and stay in your sub-conscious for ever. Once the epicentre of the British Empire in Asia, Calcutta has a jaw- dropping architectural heritage. Crumbling colonial buildings gather moss and squatters, in a state of collapse amongst the millions who scratch out what appears to be a ... more

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