The epic city : the world on the streets of Calcutta / Kushanava Choudhury

Midlife Crisis – PART I: Umbrella Park -- Flat Hunt – Nimtala – Flyover -- PART II: College Street – Victoria -- The Epic City -- PART III: Crossing the Canal -- After the Factory -- Chitpur Nights -- Sealdah -- Russian Dolls -- This Little Corner -- PART IV: The Fortress of Triumph

"When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to Calcutta, the city that his immigrant parents had abandoned. Taking a job at a newspaper, he found the streets of his childhood unchanged. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish sellers squatted on bazaar floors; and politics still meant barricades and bus burnings. The Epic City is a soulful, compelling and often hilarious account of this metropolis of fifteen million people that is truly a world unto itself."-- Book cover