Calcutta

Calcutta street scene

Shops and dwelling places taken up at the side of the India Museum, Calcutta

Closer view of the places to the side of the museum

The happy face of Kali in the act of destruction; a statue in the museum

More Kali -- she interests me greatly as the repository of childhood fears and dreams.

Interior courtyard of the museum

Some of our co-visitors to the museum.

One piece of the museum's display illustrating the spread of humans over the globe.

The lovely and colourful clothing of the Indian people.

Don't you love the wording of this plaque! Her Majesty was kind enough to assume in the name of the Brit government, full control of your country; and as if she had a choice anyway;  colonial baffle-gab.

The immense statue of Her Maj above the plaque.

1950s Indian knock-off of the British taxi-cab; still functioning widely, especially in Calcutta.

Bathing at the river

The crowds all there on a Sunday for a bathe.

Boys playing soccer on the street near the large park that we visited in Calcutta.

Me with the 18th century St George's Church, Calcutta.

Stained glass windows in St. George's.

Some of the hundreds of thousnads who arrived by bus for the anti-government rally in Calcutta.

More of the demonstrators with their red flags bearing the hammer and sickle.