Non-Governmental Organisations in Kolkata

The third-largest city in India is a constant celebration of human life, noble, cultured and desperate, decidedly futuristic but still in transition. Most Westerners associate Calcutta with human misery because of its old spelling, but that isn’t a complete picture of this 330-year-old metropolis.

Kolkata is known as India’s intellectual, artistic, and cultural capital on a national level. While poverty is evident, the city’s core machinery is driven by the self-made middle class, a nascent hipster community thrives among the city’s millennial residents, and the city’s dapper Bengali gentry frequent grand colonial-era clubs. The city was the base to Mother Theresa’s Humanitarian works and the seeds she sowed then are still reaping the benefits.