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Calcutta: The People's City. A historical and semi-archival perspective on the city of Kolkata. See magic tricks being performed on the streets. Police active on Calcutta streets, rounding up protestors. See traffic and older buses, as well as black and yellow taxi cabs on Kokata's streets. A political commentary on the Calcutta of yore. See archival footage of Calcutta from the old days. A documentary look at archival kolkata. from the archive. Dr. Sisir Bose, Freedom Fighter: "Kolkata represents essentially the spirit of resistance to injustice and wrong. And the fight to rectify or defeat injustice." Sunil Gangopadhyay and Mahasweta Devi also speak out on their Calcutta city. See CPI M graffiti and political posters on the walls of Calcutta's roads. Communist Party of India (Marxist).
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