"Transforming its urban spaces requires an acknowledgement of the city's unique character and its history."
There has been very little funding from the West Bengal government — because of ideological and political reasons — for the ‘culture' for which Calcutta is still incongruously famous. And there is little from the Centre: as if Calcutta's contribution to national culture has no proven basis. To this, local intellectuals have added their earnest, often predictably academic, testimony to that culture's irrelevance. The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Calcutta's ambivalent inheritance