Father and son Max and Alex Vadukul traveled to Kolkata this summer, to photograph the city's thinkers, writers and artist.

"The misunderstood city welcomed our curiosity. Its grim slums, incessant Ambassador taxi horns and unpleasant street odors tested us at first, but we eventually developed a great affection for the place,' Alex writes in this article for "T,' the New York Times Style Magazine. In pictures.