Besides, I don' t think anyone is going to miss one foul smelling fossil, do you?

Like a man dying for many days he is numb to the stench.

Residents say they have been bothered for years by the fetid smell of one the farms, which lies upwind of the community, and they suspect their water and air has been contaminated by waste.

His wife even threatened to stop sleeping with him, but she gave in first, insisting she should be loyal and put up with the stench.

I stayed at a hostel in the Howrah slums and regretted that my camera could record only images, not the equally memorable stench.