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42 unusual facts about Kolkata


Ashapatti Tamrakar

In 1935, he travelled to Kolkata and enrolled at United Optical Service at 54 Bowbazar Street to receive training in ophthalmology and orthoposcopy.

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.

Basanta Cabin

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

Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College

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

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.

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.

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.

Deshbandhu College for Girls

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

Digambar Mitra

The son of Shib Chandra Mitra of Konnagar in Hooghly district, he was educated at Hare School and Hindu College and was one of the leading disciples of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

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.

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.

Ganendranath Tagore

He was a student of Hindu School and when Calcutta University introduced the Entrance examination in 1857, he and Satyendranath Tagore passed out in first division.

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.

Goalundo Ghat

Most people use buses for travel from Dhaka and other places to Benapole and then cross over the border for links to Kolkata.

Gostha Paul

He moved to Kolkata when he was an infant and lived there till his very last days.

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.

Hooghly district

The district of Hooghly derived its name from the town of Hooghly situated on the west bank of Hooghly River about 40 km north of Kolkata.

Indrapuri Studio

Indrapuri Studio is a film and television studio located in N.S.C Bose Road, Tollygunge, Kolkata.

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.

Karam Apnaa Apnaa

Gauri and Samar take the three children and migrate to Kolkata.

Karima Shapandar

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

Lowitja O'Donoghue

Due to the nearby Sino-Indian War she was advised by the Australian government to evacuate to Calcutta, from where she would depart for her return to Australia.

Maulana Azad College

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

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.

Ramanath Tagore

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

Ritesh Das

Das graduated from Don Bosco High School in 1975 and went on to study commerce at City College, Kolkata from 1976-1978.

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.

South Calcutta Girls' College

South Calcutta Girls College is an undergraduate women's liberal arts college in Kolkata, India.

Sukhamoy Chakraborty

He attended Presidency University, Kolkata as an Economics major, where he was a colleague of Amartya Sen.

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.

The Ann Sothern Show

Katy's boss, Mr. Macauley was transferred to the Bartley House hotel in Calcutta, along with wife Flora.

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.

The Toast of Death

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

Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni

The specific name, andersonii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson, who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).


1950 Barisal Riots

Jawahar Lal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India visited Kolkata on 6 March and later on 16 March and after seeing the plight of the Bengali Hindu refugees he made an appeal to Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan to stop the atrocities.

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

India will have to choose six host cities from a shortlist of eight, they are New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi and Guwahati.

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.

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.

Barasat Stadium

Barasat Stadium, officially known as Vidyasagar Krirangan, is a football stadium located city in Barasat on the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal.

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.

Bengali phonology

In the dialects prevalent in much of eastern Bangladesh (Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions), many of the stops and affricates heard in Kolkata Bengali are pronounced as fricatives.

Calcutta Group

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

Carlton Kitto

Carlton Kitto is a Bebop jazz guitarist from Kolkata, India.

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.

Dipankar Bhattacharya

He studied in Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur near Kolkata and stood first in Higher Secondary Examination in 1979.

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

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.

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.

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.

Neiphiu Rio

He was awarded The Mother Teresa Millennium award, for his outstanding leadership and contributions tp politics in Kolkata in the year 2007.

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.

Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi

The Akademi is housed in two separate buildings, one at Nandan-Rabindra Sadan Complex (also mentioned as Bangla Akademi-Rabindra Sadan or Nandan-Bangla Akademi Complex during the Akademi festivals and book fairs) in South Kolkata and the other at Rabindra-Okakura Bhaban, Bidhannagar (Salt Lake).

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.

Renukoot

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

Robert Home

He visited Mahabalipuram in January/February 1793 and the two paintings he painted as a result, titled Ruins of Mahabalipuram are now in the collection of The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.

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.

Sanmarg

Sanmarg is a well known popular Hindi daily published from Varanasi which was later published from Kolkata, Burdwan, Ranchi, and Bhubaneshwar.

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.

Satish K. Tripathi

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

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).

Shunyo E Buke

After making Waarish Ganguly made this second feature film and this film did well in Kolkata and was appreciated in few film festivals.

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.

Tata Marcopolo

Tata Marcopolo products are currently being used or inducted in several Indian cities as part of the local transports fleet like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Pune, South Kanpur, Kochi, Madurai, Hyderabad, Thane, Trivandrum etc.

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.

Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

Meanwhile, in the basement, a wizard named Chip is making a magical potion, using these ingredients: warts from a bullfrog, one stick of butter, and milk from a cow that lives in Kolkata, India.

Unish-Kuri

Unish-Kuri, which literally means "nineteen twenty", targeted at teens and young adults, is one of the youngest fortnightly magazines published from ABP Ltd, publishers of Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph, of Kolkata, India, that took off as a new division, or wing of Anandamela, the 33-year-old children's magazine published in Bengali.

Vidyasagar

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

Wally Grout

Grout loved billiards, and met champion Indian billiards player Wilson Jones in Kolkata in 1960; the test team cheered Wilson in the World Amateur Billiards Championship, which was being held at the same time as the test.

West Bengal University of Health Sciences

# Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College,Joka, Kolkata MBBS

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.