This post is part of a fifteen-day series covering my trip to Kolkata, India in May 2013. Some entries have been slightly edited for length or content, but they are mostly copied directly from my journal. 3:24pm Hotel Circular, Kolkata Room 44 I was back at Shanti Dan this morning. Each time I go I see something different than the time before. When I arrived, I went straight to the sick room, where I usually go to help Nirmala and Rajkumari, the two mashis that have taken me under their wings a bit. Sitting on one of the beds was a woman who usually seems pretty lucid and cogent. She had defecated in her bed. She was sitting there, trying to clean the feces…
