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Will Calcutta ever be relevant again?

In 1985 the aviator Rajiv Gandhi decreed Calcutta to be a dying city and the legions of cynics persisted over the decades. The emerging truth is happily to the contrary as the superstar of the colonial economy is transforming swiftly to new-age competitiveness

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