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In the song La Vie Boheme from the musical Rent, why does Benny reference Calcutta?

In the musical Rent, Benny sings the following lyric during La Vie Boheme:

"Bohemia, Bohemia
Is a fantasy in your head.
This is Calcutta.
Bohemia is dead."

Why did Jonathan Larson choose the city Calcutta (aka Kolkata)? How does it represent the antithesis of Bohemia?

Calcutta, in popular American concept, is a hot steamy underbelly of a city teeming with starvation, poverty, and disease. Benny is saying that their idealized utopian Bohemia does not exist and that instead they are living in filthy squalor similar to the poor in Calcutta.

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