Kolkalta Cultural Confluence of India Edition

Prinsep Ghat is a historical ghat built in 1841 on the banks of the Hooghly River in Kolkata, India. It...

Prinsep Ghat is  located between the Water Gate and the St George's Gate of the Fort William, the monument to...

The Esplanade Mansions which was the erstwhile Matthewson is a heritage building located at the crossing of Esplanade Row and...

The Nakhodka Mosque located at the intersection of Zakaria Street and Rabindra Sarani in Chitpur area of Central Calcutta is...

Providence  played a further role when in 1814 , Nathaniel Wallich , a Danish botanist , wrote to the Asiatic...

The 'Shaheed Minar'  ..martyrs monument in memory of the martyrs of the Indian freedom movement is the erstwhile Ochterlony Monument...

The Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan , commonly known as the Salt Lake Stadium, is an  all-seater multi-purpose stadium located in Bidhannagar, with current capacity...

Like most cities Kolkata or the erstwhile Calcutta has grown around a river, here the Hoogly, the most westerly  and...

Vidyasagar Setu, or the popular Second Hoogly Bridge, connects the city of Kolkata through Howrah or the other metropolises of...

The Howrah Bridge is a balanced cantilever bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it...

The dome of the general post office -the GPO -and its white facade looms large over the  business area of...

B. B. D. stands for three young Indian independence activists — Benoy Basu, Badal Gupta and Dinesh Gupta— who on 8 December 1930 assassinated the Inspector...