This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A few years ago I was on an assignment in India. I had a day off, so I went to the Mullick Ghat flower market in Kolkata.

Food lovers thronged the 'Chetey Putey' food festival at Santosh Mitra Square near Sealdah on Friday. The four-day festival ...

Kolkata: A fire that possibly started from welding work on a roadside hoarding gutted a first-floor godown and severely damaged a store on the ground floor next to Mullickghat flower market on the ...