Trams once plied across most cities in India, but it was Kolkata that held onto its slowness. If the Victoria Memorial defines Kolkata's skyscape, the trams came to become a marker of its cityscape.
Goodbye Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, the ornate 19th-century hôtel particulier in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris that for years had played rococo host to the Valentino fashion shows.