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Review of Indrajit Hazra’s ‘Grand Delusions – A Short Biography of Kolkata’
“The sun goes around the Earth once in a year.” So begins Indrajit Hazra’s biography on Kolkata, the city that harbored (and harbors) great delusions about itself, as the ‘cultural capital of India’ and the keeper of shonshkriti.
I was born in Durgapur and have Sikh parents who are lovers of all things Bengali.
I take that love from them and through my work years frequented Kolkata and was fed on a diet of Rabindra Sangeet, Satyajit Ray, Durgo Pujo, mustard fish, sondesh and puckhas by friends and colleagues.
Indrajit hazra biography examples
As Indrajit’s book made me realize, there is much I had not learnt about the city where I had spent precious work years. The book is rich in little details -the north-south and Maru-Bong divide, how Bengalis came to eat so much sandesh, why the all important Indian-Chinese population has dwindled and why Mother Teresa was so successful in Kolkata?
Back in the 1970s and 80s when the rest