Before the palaces

The events in this book are unlikely to be new, but they surely make one look at them newly

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A City in the Making Aspects of Calcutta’s Early Growth Ranabir Ray Choudhury Niyogi Books 564 pages; Rs 995 On March 31, a flyover in north Kolkata collapsed, killing 27 people and injuring 80. The incident was not unprecedented and it reaffirmed what everyone living or going to the city – once the capital of British India and second only to London – experiences. It is held together precariously, ready to collapse. One of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s election promises was urban beautification. How the promise, like many previous ones, went ...

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Before the palaces