have minor crash: driver ignores incident.
14:16 See angry taxi driver continuously punching a smaller guy, in the middle of the street.
14:30 Go to the shores of the great river Hooghly, a tributary of the Ganges. Thousands of men are washing in the filthy water. An albino child, apparently abandoned, stares wistfully at the banyan trees.
16:00 Cross the river on the world's busiest bridge - a mighty steel arch erected by the British - and take the slum road to the 'burning ghat'.
17:00 Three corpses are being cremated in the open air, on great pyres of wood. A new corpse is being prepared for its immolation. The relatives stand around chatting as they watch the corpse attenders anoint the head with dark brown clarified butter.
17:30 Watch as the fire is lit; the scent of burning human flesh fills the air.
17:45 Step back from the heat and smoke as a previous pyre is stoked by the corpse attenders; the half-burned corpse rolls out of the embers: the skull is still intact but the legs are burned to blackened

stalks.
17:50 See that behind me is a man naked from the waist down, in the process of soiling himself; his loins are a mass of scarlet sores and his wounds are seething with flies. Realise the man is dying.
18:45 Climb back in Futurehope van to visit street kids who live under the platforms of the vast Howrah railway station.
19:15 See a teenage boy lying across tracks (previous page), with a green flannel draped over his face: the flannel is soaked in glue. His body spasms as he inhales.
19:50 Fight enormous urge to get taxi straight to airport.
21:00 Instead go to visit Sonagachi, the red light district of Calcutta, where 12-year-old Nepalese girls grab every man by the arm.
21:15 Decide as a group to head directly and instantly to the hotel and get drunk.
22:30 Have dinner in hotel restaurant of softshell crab in brandy sauce, accompanied by Chilean shiraz.
0:05 Go to bed.
0:25 Take Valium.