2015.65786.The-Great-Railway-Bazaar by Unknown

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The Howrah Mail 197 He agreed, but said the Bihans enioycd their annua] chance to snarl Bengah traffic At the head of every procession a black graining boy, dressed as a girl, made the jerky movements of a dancer wth his wnsts and leaped in the air, his genitals whipping about in his enmson san From time to time, the young girls (who might have been boys) behind him dropped to the ground and prostrated themselves m the garbage-strewn streets. The holy mob, the stink of sanenty, the legitimate noise everything in Indian hfe seemed to sanction excess, and even pohnes had the puja flavour While these religious festivals were gomg their bellowing way, the Soaahst Unity Centre was orgamzmg a bundh — a total work stoppage - and their prehmmary ralhes on the matdan with their flags and posters, processions and speeches, were practically indistinguishable from the displays of mass piety on Chowraighee’s sidewalks and at the sloshing ghats This aspect of Calcutta is the first that meets the traveller’s eye, but the one that stays longest in the mmd, it is an atmosphere of organized disturbance, everyone occupied m carrying out some programme or other, so much so that those stricken thousands one sees uniformly uniformly, because space is scarce - lymg or sitting on the sidewalk have the look of nonviolent protesters having a long afternoon of dedicated satyagraha (‘dinging to truth’) I imagined another group m an ambiguous posture when I read, m a Calcutta newspaper, ‘The leftist leaders also deaded to resort to mass squatting ’ From the outside, Howrah Station looks like a secretanat, with Its not quite square towers and many docks — each showmg a different ame - and its impenetrable bnckwork. The Bntish buildings m India look as if they have been designed to withstand a siege — there are hornworks and cannon emplacements and watchtowers on the unhkdicst structures. So Howrah StaUon looked like a fortified version of a mammoth orcumlocuuon office, an impression that buying a ncket

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