A street in the ‘Native Quarter’ of Calcutta in the 1920s. A newly translated 1923 memoir, Calcutta Nights depicts a man’s nocturnal adventures in the Indian city in the early 1900s. Photo: Getty Images
Sex and the city: a 1920s tour through the seedy nightlife of Calcutta in this tale of beauty and decadence
- First published in 1923, Hemendra Kumar Roy’s Bengali memoir describes a man’s shady, nocturnal adventures in Calcutta between 1901 and 1920
- Now translated by Rajat Chaudhuri as Calcutta Nights, it’s a conscious attempt to explain what goes on in the city’s seedier parts
A street in the ‘Native Quarter’ of Calcutta in the 1920s. A newly translated 1923 memoir, Calcutta Nights depicts a man’s nocturnal adventures in the Indian city in the early 1900s. Photo: Getty Images
