Where Are You Going? - Kolkata

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In the chaotic city of Kolkata in India, Catherine Carr hears from the feminist Shakespeare enthusiast to the man dying of AIDS and the woman still a little bit in love with her colleague; from the father and son begging by the roadside to the teenager dreaming of Olympic success.

The brief portraits have been woven together with the sounds of the city, to create an unpredictable and poetic experience of Kolkata. This series, part of the Identity series, invites strangers to pause on their way from A to B and asks them one simple question: ‘Where Are You Going?’ The encounters reveal funny, moving, poignant and sometimes astonishing details about the lives of others.

Image: Ayushi, a student at Kolkata's Presidence University. Credit: Peter Jay

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCworldservice.com slash
0:07.7	podcasts. I like A perfect.
0:14.0	Only 50, my prize.
0:16.0	Only 50, my prize.
0:18.0	Only 50 rupees.
0:20.0	Kolkata, a city of 14 million people, it never stops.
0:26.0	Drop and pick up, drop and pick up.
0:30.0	I will start this car at 8 o'clock and stop this car at 9 o'clock. I move and move around the city.
0:38.0	I'm Catherine Carr and for the BBC World Service I'm interrupting people in their busy everyday lives and asking one simple question.
0:49.0	I was just wondering why you're going now.
0:51.0	I'm going to my house now. I'm going to my house now.
0:54.0	And would you want anything exciting?
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	Two sallies.
0:58.0	Two sallies.
0:59.0	Are you allowed to tell me what color they are?
1:01.0	That's secret?
1:02.0	This is Dobstickly. And what's
1:04.8	extraordinary is how often as I'm swept along by the energy of the city I
1:09.7	bump into people who are willing to give a lot away.
1:14.0	Where are you going in a minute?
1:17.0	I'm going to meet my friend.
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