In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri moved back to Calcutta, the city in which he was born.
It was a place he had loved in his youth and the place he had made his name
writing about. But upon his return he discovered that the Calcutta of his
imagination had receded and another had taken its place. Lyrical, observant and
profound, Calcutta is a personal account of two years (2009-2011) spent in one
of the least known - yet greatest - cities of our time by one of our leading
novelists. Using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks
back to the nineteenth century, when