Still, the image of any city has a half-life of many years. (So does its name, officially changed in 2001 from Calcutta to Kolkata, which is closer to what the word sounds like in Bengali. Conversing in English, I never heard anyone call the city anything but Calcutta.) To Westerners...
Well, in Britain, from the ages of five to about eleven you start off at a primary school, and then from eleven to sixteen you go on to a secondary school or a comprehensive school and at sixteen you take GCSE examinations. After this, some children take vocational courses or even start...
Relax, a ‘loo’ is Bengali for the dusty, searing hot wind that whips around through arid Indian towns on summer afternoons. The tea stall is kind of like a high-margin wholly owned subsidiary and it’s CEO is a plump woman in a dirty petticoat, rolled up to the knees and no saree...