An Incredible Hulking Shame The Avengers go to Calcutta

New America Media Sunday 6th May, 2012

If The Avengers is right, then Mamata is wrong.West Bengal’s chief minister promised to turn Calcutta into London. But Joss Whedon in the Marvel comics saga, The Avengers, has gone backwards instead. Calcutta in the age of superheroes looks suspiciously like the one described in the City of Joy circa 1985 – cramped, squalid and leprous.In the 1992 film version of City of Joy, Patrick Swayze played the do-gooder doctor exorcising his p...

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