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Sealdah train station, Calcutta, 6:20am this morning: Forty-eight hours after waking up in a 23-house village with no roads in Sikkim, we are dumped in the middle of the second largest city in India, notorious for its slums and pavement-dwellers and for being the last bastion on earth of the human-powered rickshaw. With the auto-rickshaws from the station grossly overcharging, we decided to walk with our packs the 3km or so to the guesthouse area. On the way, as we walked down an alley in the Muslim area of town, not realising that it was the middle of the Eid holiday following the hajj to Mecca, we were treated to an extraordinary dawn sight: with the interior of a nearby mosque full, dozens of Muslim worshippers – fathers and sons – dressed in their best shalwar kameez and skull hats laid out their prayer mats onto the street and began praying right in front of us. With bleary eyes, we walked past and marvelled at how India is always able to astonish us, even after all this time. It’s moments like this that make India worth it.

Then again, you never really know…

Tags: Asia, Calcutta, Eid, India, Kolkata, prayers, South Asia, Travel

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