Das Gupta book sellers In Kolkata - an age-old Calcutta institution visited in this video in 1989

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A crowd of visitors come in to flip through books and make their purchasing choices, in the city of books and reading, of intellectuals and high morals. Kolkata in the 1980's was a place of much discussion and dialog, and remains so to date. Das Gupta book sellers In Kolkata - an age-old Calcutta institution visited in this video in 1989 Kolkata circa 1985-1990 The experience of a journey in a Kolkata tram is something else. See the driver's perspective in this 1980's - 1990's view from inside a tram doing the rounds of Calcutta city. See the ramshackle neighbourhood the tram is traversing, with the old diesel buses plying on the roads, in this video from the olden days. Hand drawn carts, cyclists and pedestrians rode alongside or even in front of the oncoming tram, going at roughly the sa