A (sometimes misunderstood) chronicler of many Indias: Lapierre never abandoned his cities of joy. For the people in Kolkata he was working with, he was Dominique Da

“See this place,” Dominique Lapierre said, pointing to a clump of multi-storeyed buildings, some of them still work-in-progress. “It’s looking like Manhattan!” It was late 1991, we were in barely-developed Pilkhana, Howrah, Calcutta (today’s Kolkata),...

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