KOLKATA – The Indian city of Kolkata’s iconic landmark, the Victoria Memorial – a large colonial-era marble monument dedicated to Queen Victoria – stands glowing in its elegant evening illumination, just as it does every day.
But, on March 24, another memorial – far more diminutive, but nonetheless important – found itself in the spotlight at a park next to the monument dedicated to the 19th-century British empress.
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