As per my tour guide, eighteen million people live here (extended Kolcata is a bit bigger though). Wikipedia offers different numbers .The driver with the guide picked me up at the airport, and I had a half day to explore the Bombay, ... Before leaving for the airport, I stopped by a nice hotel and ordered a simple American dinner. To show my respect to India, I've asked for the local beer. Mumbai's airport is old and under construction. But it operates reasonably slow. ...
It was originally named the New Howrah Bridge because it links the city of Howrah to its twin city, Kolcata (Calcutta). On 14 June 1965 it was renamed Rabindra Setu, after Rabindranath Tagore a great poet and the first Indian Nobel laureate . However it is still popularly known as ... The Burj Khalifa tower, designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill, stands at 2717 feet, more than 160 stories high, with an Armani hotel, offices, and homes all included in the massive structure. ...
We traveled for, I'm sure, three days, but we arrived in Calcultta (now called Kolcata) at 8 AM Saturday, only 16 hours later. Calcutta, developed by the the East India Trading Company of Great Britain in the 1700s and used as a ...
