Word: kolkata
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...decades, they have been a familiar sight in the sun-kissed Indian state of Kerala or the country's crumbling eastern metropolis of Kolkata. The somber portraits of dead white men - a bearded Marx, a bespectacled Lenin, and Stalin, his moustache bristling - peer down at passers-by from banners strung up over palm trees or street-corner billboards, accompanied by the less-hallowed visages of local comrades. India's Communists have been key players in the hurly burly of the world's largest democracy, dominating the ballot box in states like West Bengal, where Kolkata is the capital, and where...
...comforts that we enjoy today?" There are millions of other families still in India, still piled onto motorcycles, who have asked themselves that question. "It's difficult to carry my entire family on a bike," says Jyotirmoy Sarkar, a rice farmer in a village 72 miles (116 km) from Kolkata. "For people like me with limited means but big dreams, Nano is a dream come true." That's a big order for a small...
...government, that they are not ready to spare security forces for the cricket tournament ... We are forced to take the decision to move the event out of India," BCCI president Shashank Manohar told the media in Mumbai on Sunday. Bollywood superstar actor Shah Rukh Khan, who owns Team Kolkata and was part of the IPL governing council meeting where the decision was taken, was more magnanimous: "We need to respect the general elections, they are much bigger than our issue. This is an attempt to resolve our problems [rather] than create more." (See pictures of cricket...
...working with a mainly Indian cast? Any culture clash? Arvinder Singh Walia, KOLKATA...
...bizarre set of rituals. The Indian bus lets its passengers off on one side of the checkpoint, and they board a bus owned by a partner company on the other. The luggage passes from the hands of Indian porters to their waiting Bangladeshi counterparts. The new train service linking Kolkata with Dhaka goes through Petrapole with a similar bit of theater. It spends five hours within one kilometer of the border, disgorging passengers and luggage and subjecting them to immigration and customs twice...