Notes on the Geography of Northern India: Calcutta's New MarketTime to wake up! Make default image size larger ![]() Look out the window. What is it? At the crack of dawn, while you were still sleeping, it looked like snow. There are still a few chickens left. ![]() In netted baskets. ![]() We're in Calcutta's great market. ![]() It's the Stuart Hogg Market--Hogg Market, for short, but also called New Market--as in a football tackle called Tiny. ![]() It's hard to show the scale of the thing, but the corridors run a long way back from this facade. See the tower in the background? ![]() Here it is, closer. ![]() An inner courtyard. Photographs from the British period make the place seem clean and tidy. ![]() It's not any more. ![]() Some stretches smell sweet, though. ![]() There's plenty of produce, too. ![]() A potato specialist. ![]() Fish delivery. ![]() Tossing big ones. ![]() Butchers. ![]() The charnel house. ![]() Retail sales. ![]() Home delivery. |
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