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| Oh Calcutta! |
| PUBLIC GfK MODE quizzed 301 residents of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation area about their bond with the city as part of a survey conducted in association with The Telegraph in the run-up to Poll 2011. Here’s the love and hate, choice and compulsion of the Calcuttan in numbers |
| Rituparno Ghosh:
Film-maker
I live in Calcutta because... |
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| The sari girls |
| Ranen Ayan Dutt is still remembered by Calcuttans of a certain age for his eye-catching ad campaigns for a hair oil named Jab... |
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| Hero worship to fame |
| In College Street, book launches were looked upon with suspicion. I wonder why my Bengali publishers never launched my origin... |
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| Tales from a woman’s world |
| Do you carry a gun? Can you shoot? The joint commissioner of police (crime), Damayanti Sen, was asked. “It has to be carried ... |
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| For whom the bell tolls |
| There is no knowing who or what the mercurial Calcuttan would invoke to prove his point. At the Metro ticket counter the othe... |
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| Where Siraj meets CSI |
| Not everyone who works at Lalbazar is a cop. That was my first lesson as I roamed the corridors of power in an attempt to kno... |
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