Thank you very much Harshawardhan, for this article about yet another group of people who thrived and were happy in India, their rich past now faded away. It is a bit heart tugging. Thank you as well, for the wonderful photographs of old Calcutta lately posted by you. Those sights were not quite as I remember them, for the buildings and streets in those pics were downright 'pristine' ! I do remember Calcutta of the 1940s - a little more 'grubby' and lively and with promise of a day full of interest and occupation and nights, merry with music. Such a kaleidoscope of people and sights and colour. I remember taking tea in Whiteaway Laidlaw where a small group of musicians beneath palm trees, entertained. Army and Navy Stores meant palmolive soap rations for army people, khaki blankets and other good things not available to 'civilians'. When I think 'New Market' - entering from the right, I smell fresh flowers moist and fragrant. Heaven alone knows where they were grown and how they arrived in the dark, wee hours of the new morning. 'Oh Calcutta' ..... indeed . Good wishes Sally Twilight comes for India's fading Jewish community Moni Basu reports for CNN from Kolkata (Calcutta) March 29, 2010 http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/india.jews/index.html --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Do you remember that - because one perspired nay glowed so much out there - it was quite the latest thing to have a plastic mould made of the shape of the back of your wristwatch so you didn't ruin the works?! For me, that was in the 1950s, in the New Market. Carol T. ----- Original Message ----- From: "karoo" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Twilight comes for India's fadingJewish community > Thank you very much Harshawardhan, for this article about yet another > group > of people who thrived and were happy in India, their rich past now faded > away. > It is a bit heart tugging. > > Thank you as well, for the wonderful photographs of old Calcutta lately > posted by you. Those sights were not quite as I remember them, for the > buildings and streets in those pics were downright 'pristine' ! > > I do remember Calcutta of the 1940s - a little more 'grubby' and lively > and > with promise of a day full of interest and occupation and nights, merry > with > music. Such a kaleidoscope > of people and sights and colour. > > I remember taking tea in Whiteaway Laidlaw where a small group of > musicians > beneath palm trees, entertained. > > Army and Navy Stores meant palmolive soap rations for army people, khaki > blankets and other good things not available to 'civilians'. > > When I think 'New Market' - entering from the right, I smell fresh flowers > moist and fragrant. Heaven alone knows where they were grown and how they > arrived in the dark, wee hours of the new morning. > > 'Oh Calcutta' ..... indeed . > > Good wishes > > Sally > > > > Twilight comes for India's fading Jewish community > > Moni Basu reports for CNN from Kolkata (Calcutta) > > March 29, 2010 > > http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/india.jews/index.html > > > --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >