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  • Beware if you go to Calcutta, my good sirs: if you have sushi on the breath you may pay a high price!†  (source)
  • Thus traffickers instead began shipping young flesh to Kolkata, where they could get a better price.†  (source)
    Kolkata = previously called Calcutta; influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • For most of them I might as well have been living in the Black Hole of Calcutta.†  (source)
    Calcutta = Old name (prior to 2001) for Kolkata; most influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
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  • Pappachi agreed to let her spend the summer with a distant aunt who lived in Calcutta.†  (source)
    Calcutta = Old name (prior to 2001) for Kolkata; most influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • Sonagachi, which means "golden tree," is a sprawling red-light district in Kolkata.†  (source)
    Kolkata = previously called Calcutta; influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • Rumor had it that the bar was named after a section of an Old Earth city-some said Chicago, USA, others were sure it was Calcutta, AIS-but only Stan Leweski, owner and great-grandson of the founder, knew for sure, and Stan had never revealed its secret.†  (source)
    Calcutta = Old name (prior to 2001) for Kolkata; most influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • But I hated everything else about being in Kolkata.†  (source)
    Kolkata = previously called Calcutta; influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • Mr. Ayers would have to walk through this Calcutta each time he goes from his apartment to the studio, and I know he'll have plenty to say about it.†  (source)
    Calcutta = Old name (prior to 2001) for Kolkata; most influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • Apne Aap whisked Naina off to a hospital in Kolkata, where she was treated for severe injuries and a morphine addiction.†  (source)
    Kolkata = previously called Calcutta; influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • It will be Gogol and Sonia's first journey outside of Calcutta, their first time on an Indian train.†  (source)
    Calcutta = Old name (prior to 2001) for Kolkata; most influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • Mumbai's brothels historically were worse than Kolkata's, and they are famous for the "cage girls" who were held behind bars in brothels.†  (source)
    Kolkata = previously called Calcutta; influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • According to the most plausible version of what transpired, a clerk rushed into the chambers of Sir Andrew Waugh, India's surveyor general, and exclaimed that a Bengali computer named Radhanath Sikhdar, working out of the Survey's Calcutta bureau, had "discovered the highest mountain in the world."†  (source)
    Calcutta = Old name (prior to 2001) for Kolkata; most influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • But we heard contrary views from women with long experience fighting trafficking in the red-light districts of Kolkata.†  (source)
    Kolkata = previously called Calcutta; influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
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