Letter from India: O Calcutta!

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

O Calcutta!

In the old days, when I was growing up, it was called Calcutta. Today it is Kolkata, as the Bengalis have always pronounced it. Calcutta was the anglicised version, as the coloniser Britishers couldn't quite wrap their tongue around Kolkata. I spent three years in Caclutta at college and then... Sign in to see full entry.

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