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- proper noun Former name of
Kolkata , the State capital ofWest Bengal (India ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding
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Examples
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CALCUTTA: Authorities in Calcutta arrested an alleged member of a Kashmiri militant group on Thursday as he was buying a train ticket to travel to northern India, police said.
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CALCUTTA: Authorities in Calcutta arrested an alleged member of a Kashmiri militant group on Thursday as he was buying a train ticket to travel to northern India, police said.
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The reason my first stories were set in Calcutta is due partly to that perspective -- that necessary combination of distance and intimacy with a place.
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When I began writing fiction seriously, my first attempts were, for some reason, always set in Calcutta, which is a city I know quite well as a result of repeated visits with my family, sometimes for several months at a time.
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"My dad took me to our club there, in Calcutta, India," said Atwal.
Golfer Arjun Atwal Shines as India's First US PGA Tour Winner 2010
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"My dad took me to our club there, in Calcutta, India," said Atwal.
Golfer Arjun Atwal Shines as India's First US PGA Tour Winner 2010
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Novel about a family in Calcutta and Dhaka and their connection with an English family in London (1988)
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Taking both approaches leads to the kinds of mass slums full of dying people that we see in Calcutta or the barrios surrounding Rio De Janeiro – your basic third world human crisis that we see all too often.
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For ten years Renaldi lived in Calcutta, Lucknow (working, it is believed, forنواب آصف الدولہ Asaf ud-Daulah, the Nawab Wazir of Oudh), and in Dacca (now the capital city of Bangladesh).
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For ten years Renaldi lived in Calcutta, Lucknow (working, it is believed, forنواب آصف الدولہ Asaf ud-Daulah, the Nawab Wazir of Oudh), and in Dacca (now the capital city of Bangladesh).
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