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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Freddie And The Dreamers
A bit slow and boring,considering the subject matter .... ie Calcutta
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By Ajit Mitra
You need a Dictionery to understand this Book , I am an Indian , Bengali by birth , I wanted to know about the City I was born !. I live and made my career in England ,I have a special interest in the Economics of the city but I found everything is very biased . I would like to meet the Writer in Europe if possible ?
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By Anurag Srivastava
I found this recently released book at a shop in Fulham, London. As I read the first chapters, I found myself on a nostalgic trip to Calcultta - a city that was British Empire's capital until 1911 - the metropolis now dilapidated that once shaped India's modern national identity. Without its artists, philosophers, scientists and social-reformers the modern India as we know today would have never existed.This period of Renaissance however was neither complete nor strong enough to survive in modern India. The vast swathes of uncivilized Orient - the rural India that "Renaissance" thinkers represented have been excluded from "new" India and are reduced to extreme poverty, humiliated because of their funny tongues while Indian nationalists hypocritically embrace a history belonging to this wretched hinterland. Reading the book, it is unfortunate to see, as I had in my own trip to Calcutta, that the city which we know of in the books had somehow vanished. The dilapidation of its colonial buildings is not the kind you see in Italy or South America, probably a deeper decay and withdrawal from these colonial artifacts had taken place.Mr Chaudhari's accounts are beautiful not for the social commentary, nor for the fluid economic history he tells us but for the character sketches of derelict Calcutta - its people (esp the Ingabanga community) and its colonial buildings. He talks repeatedly of the connection of a city with its rural outskirts that its life rested upon. However imperfectly, the paraphernalia of British Empire - its clerks, officials and colonial buildings - communicated with the world around Calcutta. This is the relationship celebrated in the best of Bengali literature and was crucial in the making of Bengal's aristocracy - an elite that after much turmoil chose the communist ideals over the rest and was then crushed mercilessly by India's central government. Bengalis had no history, Mr Chaudhari quotes, they had built it all during the relationship with the British in the empire. With the departure of British and that of the industries they had built, all sorts of connections with the world around the city were severed.However, politics is hardly the subject that the book concerns itself with. Mr Chaudhuri talks only of the aftermath of politics in Calcutta's culture, commenting on the heavy costs that Calcutta has paid in its battle to preserve the connection with its outer world - a battle which it has finally lost. The modern poverty of Calcutta is indeed the unfortunate unwinding of this disconnection. In a somewhat magical fashion he reminds us that none of us are living in a world too different from Calcutta. We've all witnessed a sort of aftermath of globalization - towns of great histories reduces to obsoletion, and merged into of a world flattened by supermarkets and chains connected only through highways and internet.Chaudhari finds that a sort of disconnection is what globalization is selling to all of us. He talks at length with Italian chefs - about Italy and failure of Italian food in Calcutta. Urban Indians don't appreciate fresh olives and tomatoes, a restaurant owner points out to him, because they want to spend on something further away from them. Would the property boom in Calcutta preserve the sense of colonial architecture? Would India's consumerism savor a local cheese? Is there a more serious aftermath of such a disconnection still waiting to occur? I was left with many such questions after reading the book.The book is going to be divisive but it is the kind of book that modern India desperately needs. I myself found the book a bit devastating but was relieved to observe that Mr Chaudhuri's writings don't package the mysticism and Bollywood pomp that most Indian writing survives upon. For those reasons this may not be the ideal travel book on Calcutta but the poignant realism of Chaudhari's writings seems a far better technique to understand India than what books on India generally seem to employ.
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