KOLKATA, India -- It is dawn in the New Market in central Kolkata, and hundreds of men are hauling live chickens onto bicycles and motorcycles, setting up vegetable stalls or shuttling animal carcasses into labyrinthine market halls.
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KOLKATA, India -- It is dawn in the New Market in central Kolkata, and hundreds of men are hauling live chickens onto bicycles and motorcycles, setting up vegetable stalls or shuttling animal carcasses into labyrinthine market halls.