A significant fire erupted at a flower market in central Kolkata's Sealdah area, quickly spreading across a 400-500 metre ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A few years ago I was on an assignment in India. I had a day off, so I went to the Mullick Ghat flower market in Kolkata.

Avishek Shah, the administrator of the 800-plus-member-strong Facebook group — Agri Horticultural Society, Alipore, Kolkata, confirmed the news in a post on January 23 that the flower show at ...