back in the 60s

Calcutta was pretty astonishing for me. I mean, I expected something like a old fashioned city on the brink of getting modern or so. My impression is, that the city is stuck in the 60s. The cars look like these old style British cars from the black and white movies. The cool old buildings have all been build by the British 100 years ago. Nothing else seems to have been build since, everything looks pretty run down. Sometimes it remembered me of one of those nuclear war movies were the survivors life in the ruins of the former civilizations. Pretty harsh I know, but so is my impression. I visited the Indian Museum here with a Swedish guy I met at the hostel and I don’t think they have changed anything in there since 50 years. It is just to far away from any form of modern city that I don’t really have any urge to stay longer.