Kolkata

Get to know Kolkata

The darling of the British Raj era is nestled between squalor and splendor, amidst deep nostalgia and slow drag into the present. Kolkata’s once-stately colonial buildings seem content to settle into old age, while people bargain and negotiate with life all around them. Despite retaining its gleam as India’s cultural capital with a nightlife scene that rivals the nation’s flashier megacities, Kolkata remains a furiously complicated city that warrants contemplation.