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There are [10] photos and [11] stories tagged with "kolkata".
INDIA | Thu, 25 Aug 2016 | By manuel | Views [507]
“Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person” reza un gran panel que me da la bienvenida a Calcuta, como no, de la Madre Teresa de Calcuta. Yo no esperé a líderes, elegí tomar la decisión de salir, ... Read more >
Tags: calcuta, ciudad, kolkata, olores, pobreza, ruido, sucio, tiempo
INDIA | Sun, 29 Sep 2013 | By tjrossi | Views [795]
To the uninitiated Kolkata seems a city of pure chaos. At least that was my first impression.
Every type of transport jockeys for position on narrow streets with little or no pavements. To get from A to B on foot you experience ... Read more >
Tags: beggars, culture shock, india, kolkata, rickshaw, traffic
INDIA | Sun, 29 Sep 2013 | By tjrossi | Views [649] | Comments [1]
Arriving in Kolkata at around 1am in the morning wasn't as daunting as I had expected. I had met up with Ray on the plane; an Australian planning a cycle trip of northern India. After waiting for quite some time for our bags we went outside ... Read more >
Tags: airport, india, kolkata, taxi
INDIA | Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By marconovara | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
For most of my life I never thought much about photography. In 2008 I did my first solo trip taking photos with my mobile phone. Back from the adventure in the Amazon, and all around South America, I decided to study photography at academic level, but ...
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Tags: chaos, howrah, india, kolkata, portraits, rituals
INDIA | Fri, 15 Mar 2013 | By kirsty_nz | Views [1583] | Comments [3]
Where do you stay? I stay in Kolkata!
So I’ve been in Kolkata for a month & a half now – not so much travelling as learning to stay put and live in a totally foreign culture. The good, the bad and the crazy? Well this is India so ... Read more >
Tags: calcutta, freeset, india, kolkata, street life
INDIA | Sun, 17 Oct 2010 | By rajdeep | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Kumortuli (potters quarter) a neighborhood within Kolkata, India. Its a place where the Idols of Hindu Gods and Goddess are being made for the festival, Durga Puja, especially popular among the Bengali Community. From here the idols are delivered all ...
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Tags: #2010wnphoto, artists, festival, goddess, idol, kolkata, painting, people, potters, travel photography scholarship 2010
INDIA | Sat, 11 Sep 2010 | By sadiedaly | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
The unseasonably cold and foggy weather reflected our mood. We were stuck on this train for 12 extra hours as it dragged itself along the tracks. We truly understood the term 'climbing the walls.' We were short with each other, frustrated, had eaten ...
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Tags: #2010wnphoto, india, kolkata, travel photography scholarship 2010, varanasi
INDIA | Wed, 8 Jul 2009 | By houdyman | Views [1141]
Well as you can read we decided not to visit Nepal instead opting for Kolkata where we could spend close to a week working with fast internet for job related items. We traveled to Kalcuta on our first train in India with the American Indian boys, Anand ... Read more >
Tags: beggars, kolkata, monsoon
INDIA | Sat, 12 Jul 2008 | By andynjen | Views [517]
I was completely mistaken in my misconceptions about Kolkata, or Calcutta, the former British Trade Captial of their Indian Colony. I blame the image of millions of starving children in a desert of devastated, crumbling mud homes on Sally Struthers and ... Read more >
Tags: calcutta, kolkata
INDIA | Fri, 11 Jul 2008 | By sidhus_on_safari | Views [2521] | Comments [2]
The Remarkable Gautam Lewis Note of apology: while I am sure this is mostly true and correct - the dates are going to be a bit wrong and I will give Gautam the right to call me a tosser etc ... Gautam contracts polio ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, calcutta, gautam lewis, kolkata, missionaries of charity, polio awareness
INDIA | Wed, 9 Jul 2008 | By sidhus_on_safari | Views [1034] | Comments [10]
On decent into Kolkata I had moment of pure fear. It has never happened to me before - this kind of fear. Just imagine that the plane went into an uncontrollable spin and there, in the middle of an ordinary July night a freak plane crash claims the ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, india, kolkata