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Calcutta in India, the towns and cities

 
 

Calcutta

The Maidan neighbourhood and the Hooghly banks. The Maidan neighbourhood and the Hooghly banks.This building built during the colonial period is found on Chowringhee Road, one of the city's major axes. © Bruno Perousse

Calcutta is located in the north-west of India in the state of West Bengal. It is a bustling city that is both off-putting and fascinating, where poverty and magic jostle against each other. Its streets exude an alternation of life and death. This city of joy has a simple soul that you will learn to love. Not advisable to novices of India.

All the reasons to go

Other reasons to go

  1.   Calcutta

  2.   Chennai-Madras

  3.   Mumbai-Bombay

  4.   New Delhi

  5.   Puducherry

  6.   Varanasi-Benares

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