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CALCUTTA | Tuesday, July 7, 2020

3:53 PM

#CALCUTTA: this communist-run former capital is surely my favourite #Indian city. We found the people to be staggeringly kind and friendly, as interested in us as we were in them. And it was more functional than ornamental, we could have explored for a year. #city #india #kolkata #contaxg2

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SAEEDJAFFREY | Tuesday, July 7, 2020

3:44 PM

#SAEEDJAFFREY: as entertaining as ever, the old devil, when we dropped by his local pub to chat with him twenty years ago. #actor #india

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India | Friday, December 15, 2017

5:05 AM

Women loading salt. The men are at the piles of salt, shovelling it onto the trays for the women to lift and hand to the men on the truck. Women doing all the heavy labour in #India, what a surprise! India and Indian culture is fundamentally sexist and misogynistic, despite women in power and temples to female goddesses.

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Bombay | Tuesday, December 27, 2016

1:50 PM

Took the wrong boat out of #Bombay, ended up sailing through an industrial zone surrounded by birds. Returned without any drama, but massive amounts of #securitytheatre in town makes up for it. Five-foot high barriers that can be moved by hand or vaulted over, inconvenient for everyone but terrorists: there’s no way out short of jumping into the sea. #india

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india | Monday, December 26, 2016

6:11 AM

Your humble correspondent does not go to #india but prefers India to come to him. Hence watching cricket from the comfort of the shade. Missing Pimms but there are sugar cane juice and lime soda stalls nearby. #Bombay #nofilter #cricket

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