Once was Calcutta

A storied neighbourhood in north Kolkata, ensconced roughly between the Hooghly and Chitpur Road, was where the merchant princes of Bengal built their magnificent palatial houses at the height of British mercantile domination of eastern India. Today these Raj Baris stand crumbling but are still guardians of a burnished part. Devjyot Ghoshal visits them with his camera (Click here for detail story)