Kolkata: Kolkata may have fewer planes on the roster than Delhi and Mumbai but comes up tops in chaos at the arrival gates.
"Come with me. I have a taxi. Where do you want to go?" a scraggy-bearded man demanded of Australian social worker Dorothy as soon as she stepped out. In seconds, several others swarmed her, some demanding Rs 1,500 for the 20-km ride to the Missionaries of Charity and a few offering Rs 100 'discount'. They yanked at her stroller bag and even pulled by her arm.
"It was maddening," said a terrified Dorothy. She has come here to do voluntary service but was so shaken that she wanted to fly out immediately. "I felt like a hostage. I knew they were out to fleece me but could do nothing. Even arriving in Lagos, Nigeria, I felt safer," she said.
At the international terminal, elderly couple Arati and T K Mukherjee were accosted by touts and cabbies who demanded Rs 300-500 for a ride to Salt Lake.
23/11/12 Subhro Niyogi/Times of India
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"Come with me. I have a taxi. Where do you want to go?" a scraggy-bearded man demanded of Australian social worker Dorothy as soon as she stepped out. In seconds, several others swarmed her, some demanding Rs 1,500 for the 20-km ride to the Missionaries of Charity and a few offering Rs 100 'discount'. They yanked at her stroller bag and even pulled by her arm.
"It was maddening," said a terrified Dorothy. She has come here to do voluntary service but was so shaken that she wanted to fly out immediately. "I felt like a hostage. I knew they were out to fleece me but could do nothing. Even arriving in Lagos, Nigeria, I felt safer," she said.
At the international terminal, elderly couple Arati and T K Mukherjee were accosted by touts and cabbies who demanded Rs 300-500 for a ride to Salt Lake.
23/11/12 Subhro Niyogi/Times of India
