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Calcutta is famous for its musketeering personalities.

What ? Are you sure "musketeering" is the word you wanted to use here ?

I was searching for a better word. I thought of pioneering but it was too tame, swashbuckling but it was too far out. Can you suggest something better? I mean they are go-getters and bending the boundaries of the system.

Is this actually statistically true? Wikipedia says it's the third largest metro region in India. Apart from outliers providing anecdotes, what's the reason to say people from this particular city are exceptional pioneers and "bend the boundaries"?

West Bengal in general is characterized by such people and Calcutta is like the center of West Bengal like Paris and France. They tend to be much more into the arts and culture. Bengali, the local language is very sweet. If you hear it it sounds like they are singing. e.g. Rabindranath Tagore.

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