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2000s: What do you do when your daughter is seemingly lost in the slums of Calcutta?
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Rose has a nice life…for a while. In Cornwall, she owns and works in a cafe. With her daughter away in India on a gap year, she whiles away her days working and dreaming of her return.
But then a phone call that changes everything. Her daughter is missing in Calcutta…
Rose has no other choice but to go to Calcutta and to try and find her daughter. She is soon thrust into the hot and sweltering slums of the city, its chaos, noise and confusion.
But Calcutta has an affect on Rose that she could never have foreseen. It’s in the slums of the city that she meets the so called Untouchables and her life is never going to be the same again.
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Penzance Cornwall
“Full English breakfasts ran seamlessly into cottage pies and then the pace slowed for crab sandwiches and cream teas. the cafe had been full all day, a tropical rainforest, the windows steamed up and smells of wet wool, wet humanity.”
Calcutta, India
Life in Calcutta is hard. Hot, humid and a barren of confusion. The slums are home to the Dalit community (also known as the Untouchables)
Their world is one of poverty, the stench and the dampness of living underneath a bridge, beseeching beggars pulling at her arm, the smell of stale sweat and spices.
The Dalit community are at the bottom of the Hindu Caste systems and face discrimination in India h
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Author/Guide: Dianne Noble Destination: Calcutta, Penzance Departure Time: 2000s
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