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Calcutta has probably stopped noticing but this is an exemplar city in how accommodating it can be. The ubiquitous, and quotidian, rite of public bathing is among them
Though the increasing salinity doesn’t mean Hooghly water is going to turn brackish overnight, it points to a future when the water may not be fit for human consumption.