Scars and adornments: the urban life of Calcutta since 1947

The former colonial Indian capital city of Calcutta carries the stories of all who have come to her, for different reasons. In this post, Urvi Mukhopadhyay explores the changes in its urban texture and identity wrought by migration, rehabilitation programmes for ‘refugees’ and cultural habits and practices, as waves of people came back and forth to the city, triggered first by the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.