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42 unusual facts about Kolkata


Asutosh Museum of Indian Art

Asutosh Museum of Indian Art is an art museum located in the main campus of University of Calcutta on College Street, Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India.

Bapi Bari Jaa

Bapi, the younger son of a rich jeweller in Kolkata happens to be the money contributors for his friends.

Basanta Cabin

Basanta Cabin is a restaurant with locations at Mirzapur (opposite the Calcutta Medical College) and Hedua.

Benjamin F. Bonham

Later the Tennessee native served as United States Consul General in Calcutta, India.

Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College

Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, established in 1956, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, west Bengal, India.

Calcutta Group

The Calcutta Group was the first group of modern artists in India, formed in 1943 in Kolkata.

Calcutta Times

The Calcutta Times is a free supplement circulated with the Times of India published by the Times Group in Kolkata (formally Calcutta) region.

Carbonated water

Carbonated water was introduced in the latter part of the 18th century, and reached Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), India in 1822.

Cassini's Division

-- plural in Queen's English convention used in India--> an alternative rock band from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Ceratizit

In 1996, Instrument AG in Bulgaria was incorporated in Plansee Tizit while, at the same time, collaboration got underway with Siel to form Siel Tizit Ltd. in the Indian city of Kolkata.

Charuchandra College

Charuchandra College its an intermediate and undergraduate liberal arts college in Kolkata, India.

Deshbandhu College for Girls

Deshbandhu College for Girls is a women's college located in Kolkata.

East Calcutta Girl's College

East Calcutta Girl's College, established in 1992, is the women's college in Kolkata.

Edmund F. Baroch

Ed and Dorothy traveled several times with Mother Teresa domestically and internationally and Ed has volunteered his time in Mother Teresa's "House for the Dying" in Kolkata (Calcutta) India.

Fakir Chand College

Fakir Chand College its mainly an undergraduate liberal arts college near Kolkata, India.

Gerard Ambassa Guy

On 23 July 2010, the Cameroonian-born Hong Kong footballer arrived in Kolkata for a trial with Indian club Mohun Bagan as an Asian origin player.

Gil Langley

Langley played his last Test match against India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in November 1956 and retired from first class cricket a month later after scoring a century for South Australia against New South Wales at the Adelaide Oval.

Harish Chandra Mukherjee

Son of Ramdhan Mukherjee, the family hailed from Sridharpur in Bardhaman district but he was brought up in his maternal uncle’s place at Bhowanipur in Kolkata.

India national rugby union team

Rugby Union in India dates back to a scratch match or two played in Kolkata and Madras during the visit of MS Galatea in 1871.

Jatindramohan Tagore

The son of Hara Kumar Tagore (1798 – 1858) and grandson of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College, he belonged to the Pathuriaghata branch of the Tagore family.

Karima Shapandar

Neal was looking for his brother, Sanjit, who had gone missing while researching some mysterious disappearances in Calcutta.

Maulana Azad College

Maulana Azad College is an government administered liberal arts college, located in central Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Netaji Nagar Day College

Netaji Nagar Day College is an undergraduate liberal arts college in Kolkata, India.

Online book rental in India

Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad have small start-ups with a few thousand books in their collections.

Padma Sundar Malla

In 1916, Padma Sundar and his elder brother Jagat Sundar went to Kolkata, India and secretly sailed for Japan as the government would not have given them permission to do so.

Perfect Relations

The firm has company-owned offices in 14 major cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

Portuguese Church, Kolkata

The church serves as the cathedral for the Catholic Christians of Kolkata.

Prasanna Coomar Tagore

Prasanna Kumar Tagore (also spelt Prosunno Kumar Tagore, Prasanna Kumar Tagore) (1801–1886) was son of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College.

Ramanath Tagore

Ramanath Tagore (archaic spelling: Roma Nath Tagore) was one of the leading social figures in 19th century Kolkata (then Calcutta).

Ramkamal Sen

When Hindu College was established in 1817, he was a member of its committee.

Sahid Khudiram Siksha Prangan, University of Calcutta

Sahid Khudiram Siksha Prangan (also known as Alipore Campus) is a University college for post graduate studies under University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

Salim Baba

The film follows Salim Muhammad, a 55-year-old man who lives in Kolkata with his wife and children.

Samuel Lilly

He was appointed by President James Buchanan as consul general of the United States to British India, with residence in Calcutta, from January 3, 1861, and served until July 4, 1862, when he resigned.

Sarojini Naidu College for Women

Sarojini Naidu College for Women, established in 1956, is the women's college in Dum Dum, Kolkata.

Satish K. Tripathi

In Calcutta, after graduating from Banaras Hindu University, Tripathi gained experience in working with computers at the Indian Statistical Institute.

Shahid Minar

Shaheed Minar, Kolkata, a monument in Kolkata that was erected in 1825 by Major-general Sir David Ochterlony

Sibnarayan Ray

He joined the City College, Kolkata, a constituent undergraduate college of the University of Calcutta in 1945 at the age of twenty four as a lecturer of English literature and taught there for long fifteen years.

Surendranath Evening College

Surendranath Evening College, established in 1961, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Tanima Sen

In 1985 she acted in a play named Baluchari which was staged at Star Theatre, Kolkata and continued for 500 shows.

Than E

The recordings were done, in those days, on large wax discs, taken to Calcutta, India (now Kolkata) and put on to vinyl.

The Toast of Death

Mademoiselle Poppea (played by Glaum) is the leading ballerina of the Imperial Ballet in Calcutta, India.

World War I in literature

Critical study of Wilfred Owen's oeuvre and his life: Wilfred Owen: The Man, the Soldier, the Poet (Kolkata: Books Way, 2013) by Pinaki Roy (ISBN 978-93-81672-59-4)


Abdul Rashid Khan

Khan has participated in many national and regional conferences like Sadarang Conference, Godrej Conference, Lucknow Mahotsav, Dover Lance Conference, ITC Sangeet Sammelan, Prayag Sangeet Samiti Sangeet Sammelan all over India and has been felicited by Critics, fellow artists and many reputed recognized institutions like Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy, (1981), Banaras Hindu University (1993), Eastern Zone cultural center and Press club Kolkata.

Ad Santel

Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.

Antara Dev Sen

Antara Dev Sen was born in Kolkata, India, the first daughter of Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen and novelist Nabaneeta Dev Sen.

Anugraha Narayan Tiwari

Was given additional duties of Chairman of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), Kolkata, and Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) New Delhi, in different spells in the same period, while still holding the main responsibility of Special Secretary Power.

Anushilan Samiti

Kolkata and, later, Dhaka were the two major strongholds of the association.

Ashoknagar Kalyangarh

Buses from Habra Bus Terminal are directly connected to Naihati, Maslandapur, Madhyamgram, Bangaon, Barasat, Nagarukhra, Kalyani, Basirhat, Kolkata, Bagdah, Chakdah, Bagjola, Digha, Durgapur, Bandel, Baruipur, Howrah, krishnanagar, Barasat, Alampur, Dattaphulia, Nimta, Sodepur, Duttapukur, Jagulia.

Asit Kumar Saha

Asit also managed the Indian Wrestling team at the 1987 South Asian Games held in Kolkata, India.

Bangabasi College

Bangabasi College has common sports ground and a beautiful pavilion on the Kolkata Maidan for cricket, football, hockey, volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, and athletics.

Bengal famine of 1770

In the 17th century the then-English East India Company had been given a grant of the town of Calcutta by the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja.

Biswatosh Sengupta


and the third solo exhibition on Graphic Art using c, c++ and MATLAB was held at the same gallery of Kolkata from 3–9 October 2012.

Black Diamond Express

As such, the train serves as a link between towns such as Bandel, Seoraphuli, which are located on the main line with industrial centers Durgapur, Asansol, Dhanbad and Bokaro (via-Dhanbad) and the metropolis of Kolkata.

Budhaditya Mukherjee

In 1995, he started recording on the surbahar (bass sitar), first as a two-part series (Brilliance of Sound) for Beethoven Records in Kolkata (ragas Yaman and Marwa), then raga Komal re Asavari for RPG/HMV on Tribute to My Father, My Guru (STCS 850362).

Dadagiri Unlimited

In 2009, Kolkata won the finale( ShahRukh Khan was celebrity guest in the finale episode of the first season.); and in season 2, North 24 Parganas bagged the win.

Dhanbad Junction railway station

There is a bus stand just outside the railway station, where buses are available to nearby cities like Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Bokaro, Asansol and Durgapur are easily available.

Eastern Naval Command

The Eastern Navy fleet is distribute among its bases at Kolkata, Paradip, Tuticorin, Kakinada and Chennai on the east coast, and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Ethnic communities in Kolkata

The most famous Greek to hail from Kolkata possibly was the gifted violinist Marie Nicachi who embarked on a European tour in 1910 and played at the courts of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

Festivals in Kolkata

Crowds of people throng the streets of Kolkata all night; the number is purported to be a few million on the climactic eighth and ninth nights, possibly the second largest annual human conglomerate after the Hajj.

George Gilbert Swell

After passing the Bachelor of arts examination from the Scottish Church College, Kolkata, he took his Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Calcutta in 1945.

Golden Tree

Sonagachi, aso known as Golden Tree, the largest red-light district of Kolkata

Habra

Buses from Habra Bus Terminal are directly connected to Naihati, Maslandapur, Madhyamgram, Bangaon, Barasat, Nagarukhra, Kalyani, Basirhat, Kolkata, Bagdah, Chakdah, Bagjola, digha, Durgapur, Bandel, Baruipur, Howrah, krishnanagar, Barasat, Alampur, Dattaphulia, Nimta, Sodepur, Duttapukur, Jagulia.

Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

Heritage Institute of Technology was set up on the eastern fringes of Kolkata in 2001 by a group of industrialists hailing from the flourishing Information Technology, Electronics and related industries around Kolkata, and some public figures.

History of Guadeloupe

They came from the Coromandel Coast, Puducherry, Madras, Calcutta and Malabar, and were hired to work in the sugar cane fields.

Jai Balaji group

The Group has been promoted by Kolkata based businessmen and includes nine Iron and Steel making plants in Durgapur, Raniganj and Liluah in West Bengal; Rourkela in Orissa; Durg in Chhattisgarh and Saraikela in Jharkhand.

Kolkata Riverfront Beautification Project

A Ferris wheel named Kolkata Eye or Kolkata Merina will be probably constructed on the banks of Hooghly River.

Krishna Mohan Banerjee

In 1852, Krishna Mohan was appointed a professor of Oriental Studies at Bishop's College, Kolkata.

Maitreyi Devi

She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata.

Manohari Singh

In 1942, he joined the brass band at Bata Shoe Company, Bata Nagar in Kolkata, under its Hungarian conductor Joseph Newman.

Methodist High School, Kanpur

The school is run and managed by the Methodist Church in India, which also runs a number of schools and colleges in India such as the I T College, Lucknow UP, the Lucknow Christian College, the Calcutta Boys' School and the Calcutta Girls' High School, Kolkata and the Baldwin Boys High School and Baldwin Girls High School, Bangalore, to name a few.

National Science Day

Sir C. V. Raman worked at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India during 1907 to 1933 on various topics of Physics making discovery of the celebrated effect on scattering of light in 1928, which bears his name and that brought many accolades including the Nobel Prize in 1930.

Omichund

He had long been resident at Calcutta (Kolkata), where he had acquired a large fortune by providing the investment for the British East India Company, and also by acting as intermediary between the English and the native court at Murshidabad.

Qatar Airways

The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.

Rasikendra Nath Nandi

Apart from his scholarly activities, he established schools for spreading of modern education in Pabna and in Agarpara (near Kolkata), where he died in 1962.

Renukoot

Renukoot has a railway station which is connected to major cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Jammu, Ranchi, Patna, Jabalpur, and Bhopal.

Sahayak-class hopper barge

The Sahayak class of hopper barge is a pair of yardcraft built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), Kolkata for the Indian Navy.

Salim Group

The proposal for a bridge across the Hooghly River from Raichak to Kukrahati, which will connect Haldia to Kolkata, has been hanging fire for many years.

Saskia Rao-de Haas

Saskia Rao de Haas has performed at a number of traditional festivals, such as the Dover Lane Conference in Kolkata and the Harvallabh Sangeet Samelan in Jalandhar.

Shakti

A commonly accepted list of Shakti peethas and their famous temple complexes includes: Jwalaji (Himachal), Tara Tarini (Berhampur, Orissa), Katyayani (Chattarpur, Delhi), Kamakhya (Assam), Kali at Kalighat (Kolkata, West Bengal), Naina Devi (Himachal), Guhyeshwari Temple Devi (Kathmandu, Nepal), Vishalakshi Temple (Varanasi).

Skybus Metro

Cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pondicherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Thane etc. are considering Sky Bus although the system has not been adopted anywhere.

Snehasis Sur

He is a media educator and associated with Calcutta, Jadavpur, Burdwan, Viswa Bharati Universities and Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Orissa, and Bharatya Vidya Bhavan, Kolkata, as visiting lecturer.

St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School

Himachal Som '61 (former Indian Ambassador to Italy, father of Vishnu Som, NDTV anchor) and husband of Dr. Reba Som, Director of Indian Council for Cultural Relations' Rabindranath Tagore Centre in Kolkata.

Tehatta

Tehatta is around 42 km north from the district town Krishnanagar and 140 km north from the state capital Kolkata.

The Namesake

Moving between events in Calcutta, Boston, and New York City, the novel examines the nuances involved with being caught between two conflicting cultures with highly distinct religious, social, and ideological differences.

Tirur railway station

Though no trains originate from this station, trains halting at the station connect the town to prominent cities in India such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Mangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Jammu Tawi, Okha, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and so forth.

Vidyasagar

Vidyasagar Setu, commonly known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, a bridge in West Bengal, India linking Howrah to Kolkata

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was born on December 29, 1844 at Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the present-day state of West Bengal in an upper middle class Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family of considerable social standing.His ancestors belong from the village named Baganda situated in Hooghly district.

Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

YSS's headquarters, Yogoda Satsanga Math, is situated in Dakshineswar, in the state of Kolkata with branches in Dwarahat, in the state of Uttarakhand, and Ranchi, in the state of Jharkhand.