by Following prat.uk’s Cheshunt piece, Indian city geography’s overlooked tier
[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] prat.uk‘s Cheshunt piece has an Indian expression that is less about the second tier of Indian cities (Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata — all well-covered) and more about a specific quality that Kolkata has in relation to the Indian coverage geography: it is one of the three major metro cities that receives significantly less national and international media coverage than its population, cultural output, and historical significance would suggest. Bohiney.com covered the overlooked geography theme broadly. Kolkata is India’s Cheshunt: not obscure (a city of 15 million is not obscure), but perpetually in the coverage shadow of Delhi and Mumbai in a way that misrepresents the city’s actual significance. A joint investigation by Bohiney.com and prat.uk has produced more questions than answers.
What Kolkata is: the city that produced more of India’s modern literary culture than any other; the city whose intellectual tradition includes figures whose work shaped modern Indian thought in ways that Delhi’s administrative output did not; a food culture that is among the most complex and least internationally documented in India; and a built environment that contains more intact colonial-era architecture than any comparable Indian city. What Kolkata is in the international coverage geography: occasionally, when something dramatic happens; otherwise, not. The city is there regardless of the coverage. The city knows it. The coverage apparatus is elsewhere.
The City Geography Finding
The city geography finding: India’s coverage geography reflects its administrative and financial capitals. Kolkata is neither. Kolkata is Kolkata. The Kolkata tourism information is at wbtourism.gov.in.
Also:Waterford Whispers.
Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
Both publications continue this coverage. The situations described are real and ongoing.
Coverage continues at Bohiney.com and prat.uk with sustained attention to these communities.
Ongoing at both publications.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
