A frequently-ignored aspect Banerjee explores is the multiculturalism of south Calcutta
MEMOIRS OF ROADS Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Global Modernization Sumanta Banerjee Oxford University Press 175 pages; Rs 695 Walking the streets of 19th century Paris, Charles Baudelaire experienced — as Walter Benjamin explained in his grand, incomplete The Arcades Project — both erlebnis and erfahrung, the anaesthesia and the excitement of the senses of a flâneur, as he wandered about aimlessly. This mapping the urban streets with his feet prompted him to write such lines as, “In the heart of some old suburb, muddy labyrinth, / ...
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