Calcutta: a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the goddess kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song th...Calcutta: a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the goddess kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction.