Sentence examples for is Calcutta from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Former name of Kolkata
As it is, Calcutta in particular seems merely a collection of grotesque people and incidents.
Go through the door of any business, he would say, and you can tell whether it is Calcutta or Fontainebleau.
The setting is Calcutta in British India: Charulata, played by the hypnotically beautiful Madhabi Mukherjee, is the bored, cultured wife of a newspaper editor and proprietor who prides himself on being a bold free-thinker.
COUNTLESS hammers and sickles are still daubed on the crumbling colonial façades of what used to be Calcutta, now named Kolkata.
Six colts & 4 fillies were chosen as finalists for the All-American; one of them was Calcutta Deck, owned by Bill Smith of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, who is neither rich nor famous.
Maybe it's Calcutta, or maybe it's Charleston.
Many Indian cities have undergone name changes of late: Bombay is now Mumbai, Calcutta is Kolkata, Madras is Chennai.
Principal ports in India are Kolkata (Calcutta), Haldia, Vishakhapatnam, Chennai, Cuddalore, and Paradeep.
"This is not Calcutta," Murphy said.
"What better place to work?" said Dr. Sarkar, 42, an environmental scientist who is from Calcutta.
