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Letter from Kolkata
A saucy tale from Kolkata’s Chinatown
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ST PHOTO: DEBARSHI DASGUPTA
KOLKATA – The two golden dragons, coiled around the pillars at the gate, are hard to miss.
They stand out amid an unruly overhead tangle of power lines in a noisy and congested neighbourhood in the eastern Indian metropolis of Kolkata, surrounded by drab multi-storey concrete buildings.
