Calcutta

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"Since the end of the Middle Ages, there is no place on the world map for Hell anymore. That is an error of the modern mind, for, to the poor of India, Hell exists: it is called Calcutta. One would like to begin a geographic discussion of squatter settlements in Calcutta from something of an objective point of view, but that is impossible. Every record of the situation, every photograph, journalistic report, anecdote and discussion of the "experience" leads to the same dead end. To be poor in Calcutta, to be a Dalit - "Untouchable" - in that city, is to be consigned to an existence of wretched being. It is such a place that Mother Teresa won her Nobel Peace in 1979 for organizing the simple, terrifying act of gathering the near-dead from the streets and giving them a place to die in their last hours of life - 54,000 in the single decade of the 1980s (Desmond 11)."

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