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gol-guppa, avocado chaat and edamame
samosa) . Even the weather is on its side,
the changing seasons allow a sartorial
showing off. How civilised it is to sit on
sun-warmed lawns in silks and matching
shawls.
Kolkata too has a winter but, for the
old guard at least, dressing up runs Kolkata is the world!
counter to its image of high thinking and are increasingly blurred. Cookie-cutter
low living. Even Delhi netas are nattier. lifestyles in cookie-cutter cities are an
Think the sharply cut Modi-ji and the increasing reality. But, thank goodness, old
sloppy Mamata-di. Yes, fashion may habits die hard, even if old habitats have
have been born, baptised and bloomed keeled over. What used to be said about
in Mumbai, but for most of its people it’s those from Oxford and Cambridge remains
too hot, too sticky or too wet to bother. true of Delhi and Mumbai. The former
Also, everything’s too rushed, too far and, act as if they owned the world; those from
increasingly, too dug up. Unlike in Delhi, the latter couldn’t care who owned it.
it’s cool to be casual. And what of my ‘native place’. ? ‘Owner-
Yes, the distinct lines demarcating the shoner? Ki nonshense kotha! Kolkata is the
political, financial and cultural capitals world.’
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