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Ranabir Ray Choudhury
Picture by A. Roy Chowdhury
Harrods of the East: This was how the Metropolitan Building in Central Kolkata, which housed the famous Whiteaway Laidlaw department store in the early years of the last century, was known. Since the 1950s, the building has lost its character because while it has nothing to do with its past role of housing one of the largest department stores east of Suez, it has also not developed as an office or residential complex. There are a handful of offices, shops and private residences in it now, making it just another important, big building of the city – an echo from the past – without any easily recognizable personality. The only saving grace is that it has been repaired in recent years and has been given a fr
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