Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason. - Amit Chaudhuri

... the world's cheapest small car, Tata's Nano, worth only $1500. This toy-like ill-fated vehicle, whose destiny it was to look as if it had been prematurely brought into the world, more foetus than car, and whose birth was near abortive and then indefinitely delayed, this car, when it finally took to the road, turned out to have an engine that at times exploded mysteriously. Until 2009, it was seen to be Bengal's quirky but irreplaceable mascot for development.

It never became so dark in the room in Claremont; some light, inquisitive and worldly, always entered through the curtains

These small freshwater fish