Calcutta Then | Kolkata Now by Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Indrajit Hazra ,Pramod Kapoor

Calcutta Then, Calcutta is where it all began. The city symbolized Indias transformation from medievalism to modernity. The British created the framework. The prophets and pioneers who operated within it were Indian. Raja Rammohan Roy linked past and present. After him came the poets, patriots and politicians. They made banian, boxwallah, bhadralok and biplab trader, company executive, gentleman and revolutionary the four props of the new metropolitan culture that inspired Gopal Krishna Gokhales memorable comment, What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow.