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Kolkata

Ruminations on the City of Life

Mirza Ghalib uttered these lines around the mid1800s after visiting the then capital of British India for the first time. This great Urdu poet of India then added something about that city which still holds true.

Massive crowd at Kolkata Int’l Book Fair on its last Sunday

With over 600 stalls and attracting over 2 to 3 lakh visitors every day, the 47th Kolkata International Book Fair at Boi Mela Prangan in Salt Lake organised by the Publishers & Booksellers Guild, proved its great success this year too. The last Sunday of this fair recorded a quite larger crowd than expected.

Vintage two-wheelers hold their own

More than 120 vintage and classic cars and two-wheelers ruling the roads of Kolkata; that's what the residents of the city witnessed on Sunday morning as The Statesman flagged off its 53rd edition of Vintage and Classic Car Rally.