Calcutta: Two years in the city

Amit Chaudhuri,in conversation with Naresh Fernandes, will ducuss the multiplicity of realities that makes Calcutta so difficult to speak about it any one way. One of the great cities of modernity, it is a t once Bengali, colonial, Marwari, European, political, artistic, poor, cultured, philistine, bourgeouis, pioneering, backward-looking, endangered, and alive, Chaudhuri, born in Calcutta but raised in Bombay, speaks of his new book, which is written from the intermesshing of the native's intimacy and the emigre's distance and surprise.