X-Nico

29 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.

Benjamin F. Bonham

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

Cassini's Division

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

Charuchandra College

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

Digambar Mitra

Raja Digambar Mitra (1817 - 1879) was one of the leading Derozians and first Bengali Sheriff of Kolkata.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hooghly-class fuel barge

Hooghly-class of fuel barge are series of service watercraft being built by Hooghly Dock & Port Engineers Ltd, Kolkata (HDPEL) for the Indian Navy.

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.

Indrapuri Studio

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

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.

Netaji Nagar Day College

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

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).

Shahid Minar

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

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.

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.

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).


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.

Ad Santel

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

Alvito D'Cunha

He made a start after a few years for East Bengal against Kalighat Milan Sangha F.C. in the inaugural match of the Calcutta Premier Division 2013, where he scored from a penalty on the 15th minute, and assisted his state-mate Joaquim Abranches with a forward through pass to score his first goal for the Kolkata-based side.

Amethi

It has many direct trains connecting with major cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Dehradun, Haridwar, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kolkata, Puri, Bhopal, Mumbai, Bangalore, Jammu and many more.

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.

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.

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.

Bihar Sharif

The town is well connected by road to major cities like Patna, Rajgir, Nalanda, Harnaut, Ranchi, Dhanbad, koderma, Kolkata, Gaya, Hazaribag, Jahanabad, Bakhtiyarpur, Barhi, Ramgarh, Jamshedpurnalandalakhisrijamui.

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).

Carbonated water

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

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.

Dipankar Bhattacharya

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

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.

Hariyon

The nearest railway station in India is the Raxaul Junction which has trains bound to places like New Delhi, Kolkata in India.

Hiren Roy

Born in Bangladesh in 1920, Roy went to Kolkata at the age of 12 to learn the art of sitar playing.

History of Guadeloupe

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

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.

ICGS Rajdhwaj

ICGS Rajdhwaj (ICGS refers to Indian Coast Guard Ship) is a Rajshree-class inshore patrol vessel (IPV), and the last in the series of eight IPVs designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders Engineers, Kolkata for the Indian Coast Guard.

Joka

Joka, Kolkata, a locality in South West Kolkata, India, the home of IIM Calcutta

Kashipur

Cossipore (also spelt Cossipur, Kashipur) is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal

Koderma railway station

Koderma has a rail connectivity with the other major parts of the country such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Nagpur, Pune, Guwahati etc.

Kolkata Metro Line 2

Line 2, also known as East-West corridor of the Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system under construction which will serve Kolkata, Salt Lake and Howrah in the Indian state of West Bengal underneath the Hooghly River.

Kukrahati

The projects would be implemented by New Kolkata International Development Private Ltd, a special purpose company that has been promoted by the Salim Group, the Universal Success Group and Unitech.

Neiphiu Rio

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

Sathyamangalam

The nearest airport is Coimbatore International Airport, which is 65 km by road, which has regular flights to New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Sharjah and Singapore.

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).

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.

Tarhala

The location of this village is all set to become strategically very important since the planned Kolkata-Mumbai express highway and the Kanyakumari-Delhi Express highway cross just 2 km away from this village.

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.

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

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.