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A cemetery in Calcutta from the 19th century

cemeteries have fascinated me ever. How do people bury their dead says a lot about it from. So I am also paid such a visit in Calcutta. However, he makes no statement about the Calcutta of today, but evidence of its former, resulting in Kollonialherrschaft superb. He is like an oasis in this increasingly loud and noisy city. Behind the cemetery walls you will find a forest, semi-cultivated, half forfeit. The noise fades into the background and the silence of death surrounds you.

I wander through the Graeberstadt, because otherwise you can not call it, and enjoy the almost-silence.

The tombs are impressive - very old and one of them sees the years are buried many young people here -. Many English names engraved on the grave stones. From Kollonialzeit, we I suppose. Who died here, was also buried here. However, Anglo-Indians fnd themselves, for example, the poet Henry Louis Vivian Derozio , the apparently great respect and reverence to this day is brought against. His grave is adorned with Blumenkraenzen. This illustrates the dilemma. the last time. The English Kollionalherren together with the anti-imperialist patriot, but could not deny his roots and, on a Freiudhof. verreint in death.