Calcutta: Two Years in the City Book Online

This latest Calcutta: Two Years in the City book is Amit Chaudhuri's account of two years in the city. Using the elections of 2011 as his fulcrum, Chaudhuri evokes all that is most particularand extraordinary about the city-from its houses with their slattedwindows to its effervescent cultural life and its pujas and Christmas.Hepaints too an acute, and often ironic, picture of life in the city today-of itsmalls, restaurants, its middle class who leave and then return reluctantly,and its itinerant poor.