Calcutta: a city of "ruthless hates, passionate loves."

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: July 9, 1984| Author: Kaylor, Robert | Copyright information

Everything that could go wrong with a city did, with a vengeance, in this Indian metropolis, giving the world a nightmare vision of what happens when urban woes run amok.

Visitors from the outside are sickened by Calcutta's overcrowding, poverty, squalor and decay. So overwhelming is the misery that inhabitants have little choice but to try to ignore it. More than 10 million people live in an area orginally built to hold about 1 million, then left to deteriorate for de...

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