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In consequence, Calcutta today looks like a ghost town surrounded and nearly swallowed by a vast urban landscape spreading out of sight in every direction. Hundreds if not thousands of colonial buildings have survived and are now used as apartment blocks or office buildings, although many are in such disrepair that you can hardly believe they’re inhabited at all. With crumbling masonry, yellowing walls, and plants frequently sprouting through the roofs, the buildings appear to have been abandoned to nature after the British retreat. In a bit of delicious irony, many of these colonial palaces are now rent-controlled flats occupied by working-class families who the British, in their time, would never have allowed past the front door.

- claims this article in The Sunday Leader (Link)

What do you think ? Is Kolkata dead, as Moon Moon Sen claimed a couple of days ago, and this article is correct ? Or is Kolkata as alive as ever ?