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The Duchess of Kolkata's Sudder Street

The Duchess of Kolkata's Sudder Street

Rediff.com21 Nov 2013

Violet Smith, who reminds you of novelist Barbara Cartland, is the daughter of Armenian refugees who escaped genocide during the First World War and sought refuge in India. At 92-going-on-93, she lives in a quaint hotel-cum-home that she owns in old Kolkata's Sudder Street, clinging to an era long gone.