“The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.”
― Calcutta: Two Years in the City
― Calcutta: Two Years in the City
“The intention (of the puja pandals) is not so much to entertain as to disorient and astonish; to tap into the Bengali’s appetite for the bizarre, the uncanny.”
― Calcutta: Two Years in the City
― Calcutta: Two Years in the City
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