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Almost a century after they first came up, ‘pice hotels’ are still popular in #Kolkata and a unique phenomenon. And, they carry within them our social history.
'Pice Hotels' are so-called thanks to their uniformly priced meal at six paise (an Anna) in the 1930s in undivided India. They serve wholesome and tasty Bengali home #food, freshly made from the catch of the day at dirt cheap prices, even today.
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About Harry Hobbs, the forgotten chronicler of imperial Calcutta, my article -
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The Other ‘Shakespears’ in India...
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This Mahalaya Kolkata is Set For Most Unique Puja in Living Memory
Mahalaya marks the end of Shraadh or Pitr-Pakshma, and the beginning of Devi-Pakshma. It’s unique this year.

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British India’s Racist Theatre: How ‘Blackface’ Took Centre Stage.
Does anybody from Calcutta, now Kolkata, remember Dave Carson – the American who popularised ‘blackface minstrelsy’?

The Indian Charivari and its Dirty Secret...
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Why would a mercenary soldier with no literary leanings launch a magazine in Calcutta, that heaped scorn on Indians? Catch the curious case of Colonel Percy Wyndham and the twist in his outlandish tale.