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Kolkata: Shop + Puchka Vid + Translate by J. Prieto + Podcast

da-AL
9 min readMar 24, 2023

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Kolkata shopping is a world apart from anything I’ve experienced elsewhere. (By the way, learning at least a few words of the language for where I visit makes things loads more fun — more on that below, as well as how it can figure into novel-writing like for my upcoming “Flamenco & the Sitting Cat.”)

Apologies that photography can’t convey bicycle ring-a-lings and car honk-honks. Images can’t waft sidewalk vendor aromas. Nor can they resonate cow clop-clops as they overtake traffic.

More on my trip to India: here and here and here and here.

Once we felt human after the sleep-defying endless airplane journey, it was time to…

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Novelist/Blogger/Podcaster. More great stuff at HappinessBetweenTails.com

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