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Bécon-les-bruyères

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Kolkata

All of life
is here

Train stations, ports, metro cars and buses attract more than just travelers: they are places where life unfolds on a daily basis, where people meet and do business or just hang out, blending into the anonymous mass of people.

Calcutta's main railway station is home to several thousand people... they live, eat, meet and part, and even die there.

In Tokyo, journeys are so long that it is common for people to fall asleep with their head resting on the shoulder of the person sitting next to them, who will never take offense.

  • Kolkata railway station
  • In 1946 by Clyde Waddell
  • In 2002 by Stéphane Mahot
With the permission of the South Asia Collection,
Van Pelt Libraries