Memory's Gold Writings on Calcutta

Kipling&Rsquo;S &Lsquo;City Of Dreadful Night&Rsquo;, The &Lsquo;Nightmare Experience&Rsquo; Of Jawaharlal Nehru, &Lsquo;Heroine Of A Hundred Thousand Loves&Rsquo;, A &Lsquo;Pestilential Behemoth&Rsquo;&Mdash;Calcutta Provokes Extreme Reactions In Almost Everyone Who Has Encountered The City. Despite Having &Lsquo;Probably The Filthiest Climate On Earth&Rsquo;, Described By Mark Twain As &Lsquo;Enough To Make A Doorknob Mushy&Rsquo;, Despite The Doomsday Predictions About It Being A &Lsquo;Dying City&Rsquo;, Calcutta Throbs With A Life And A Vitality All Its Own, Drawing People From All Walks Of Life To Engage With It. &Nbsp; This Anthology Brings Together Essays, Stories, Poems And Memoirs Of People Who Have Shared An Ardent Relationship With Calcutta. From Henry Meredith Parker&Rsquo;S Early Nineteenth-Century Vignettes Of Life In The City To Ulrike Draesner&Rsquo;S Overwrought Images At The Turn Of The New Millennium, From Tagore&Rsquo;S Elegiac Reminiscences Of His Childhood Home To Sandipan Chattopadhyay&Rsquo;S Hallucinogenic Depictions Of Nights Spent On The Footpath, Memory&Rsquo;S Gold Celebrates The Coexistence Of The Sacrosanct And The Blasphemous, So Characteristic Of Calcutta Itself. &Nbsp;