RE: Kolkata Can Shock With Its Contrasts and Extremes, but It Is Actually Good for Living. Photos and Thoughts

But I guess if you’re desperate, that’s better than by the tree

It depends, lol. Sometimes, better by a tree in a dark corner. Many times, I had to pee at random places - like, at bus agencies - twice - they just showed me a wall they use as a urinal. Etc.

Happily, in Kolkata (and from experience only in Kolkata) they have many cheap and clean paid bathrooms.

It’s amazing how proud that man looks in the cupboard

There are reasons for that: he doesn't sit on the roadside as many and has the roof above him, and the chair... He is like the high-class guy among the street vendors. Won't be surprised if he inherited this place from his father and selling lottery is their family business for generations, lol... who knows.