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Anonymous wrote:Any major city in India, but to be fair to them there isn't really a system of trash collection. I distinctly remember walking Kolkata when a fish market put trash out in piles on the street. Viscerally one of the most awful experiences of my life. Guy was getting his face shaved right next to that.
Actually the ghats (public baths on the river) in Kolkata were also absolutely disgusting. Kolkata is a beautiful city, but woof those two experiences were just so bad.
My parents are from Kolkata and I used to go there yearly as a kid. I think it’s the worst of the major Indian cities, cleanliness wise, by far.
But Kolkata is such an interesting city. It is a theater of life with all the good and bad.
Absolutely filthy though.
For various reasons, India does not do communal spaces well. Caste being the biggest one. Corruption being the secondary reason. But, by and large, Indians do not give a f about the poor. And it's a gigantic country that has normalized a level of misery you don't see anywhere else.
Still liked Kolkata. And Mumbai, Kochi, Darjeeling, Varanasi, Udaipur, Madurai, Bikaner and so on. But I absolutely despised Delhi and Agra. There's a cruelty there that's a little different. Dark places.
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