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Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) It is more than four decades now that India’s noted pop-singer Usha Uthup first rendered the celebrated lines in her ode to Kolkata (then spelt Calcutta), calling the city “beautiful” despite the several challenges and obstacles that its residents have been facing through the times.The song mentions the city then hosting incessant political rallies and marches, hawkers blocking footpaths, frequent power cuts, environmental and traffic problems, handcarts and rickshaw…