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US
/ˌkæɫˈkətə/
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NOUN
- the largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding
How To Use Calcutta In A Sentence
- One of the primary objectives of the Calcutta celebration is to crystallize this counter-exemplarity in the very space where previous observers, including Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
- Complexes suggested for Bombay, Calcutta, Jullundur, Kanpur, and Madras would have similar facilities and output, except for product lines specific to certain places. Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
- Manufacturing operations were at Agra (central) for footwear; Calcutta, Bombay (west), and Madras for leather goods; Meerut and Jullundur (north) for sports goods; and at Kanpur (central) for harnesses and boots. Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
- When the Calcutta intelligence chief suggested someone go on an “errand-boy visit” to check out the neighboring MO operation in Kandy, Betty had immediately put her name forward in hopes of seeing her friend again. A Covert Affair
- I grew up around the Gangetic planes of eastern India, in a small town called Chandan Nagar about 25 miles from Calcutta. Musings in Monsoon Logic
- Mother Teresa, for example, identified as much as she could with India's Hindus, adopting the sari as the habit for her order of nuns, and she showed her commitment to Christ by succoring the dying in the streets of Calcutta.
- A deluge of postgraduate applicants for the posts of lower division clerks, junior assistants, sweepers, liftmen and durwans have left the Calcutta University (CU) authorities struggling to select the candidates for 200-odd vacancies. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
- Later, they went regularly to Dhapa, the large leprosy colony in Calcutta, where they tended the sick.
- After that he worked for the family firm in Calcutta, supplying construction sites with steel. Times, Sunday Times
- As she traces her own journey from girlhood to womanhood in Calcutta, she evokes the intimate experiences of food and ritual that structure women's everyday life in Bengal.
