Looking east | Cheenapara Heritage Gallery, Kolkata

This area was part of the ‘grey town’,” says G.M. Kapur of INTACH Conservation Institute, speaking about Tiretta Bazar in Kolkata, home to the newly opened Cheenapara Heritage Gallery. “While European white settlers lived in white town, Indians in black town, the grey town housed Chinese, Jewish, Armenians, and so on.”