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Title: Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History by Krishna Dutta, Anita Desai ISBN: 1-56656-488-3 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A welcome introduction to a much maligned city
Comment: Krishna Dutta does tremendous justice to a city that has quite unjustly, although, giving the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt, perhaps unwittingly been cast as an icon for poverty or human suffering, by media, some authors who have not yet given up Kipling's notion of the "white man's burden" and certain celebrities like the late Princess Diana, whose "acts of compassion" have caused many guilt-stricken people to spend a few thousand dollars apiece to fly out to Calcutta and donate a dozen shirts to the "dying and the poorest of the poor", when they could probably do a greater service to humanity by going to the underbelly of their own respective cities and spend that money on the poor and needy closer home. Krishna Dutta brings out the true image of Calcutta, complete with its history, heritage, culture and warts (all of which contribute to make it special, something that is true for all cities in the world). I sincerely hope that the book makes it to every reader who has been dazed by the sensationalism of Dominique Lapierre's City of Joy in the last few years. As an outsider who migrated to Calcutta. lived and worked there for a few years (and fell in love with the place) and then migrated away from there, I can say that people would be better off reading this book as an introduction to Calcutta, than they probably will from any other, least of all the works of Lapierre and Gunter Grass.
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Title: Prague: A Cultural and Literary History by Richard D. E. Burton ISBN: 1566564905 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Insight Guide Calcutta by Michel Vatin, Insight Guides ISBN: 0887296327 Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: 19 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Fourth R by Joan Delfattore ISBN: 0300102178 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri ISBN: 0395927218 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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