One of the busiest roads of Kolkata happens to be Strand Road. It is a major thoroughfare running along the east bank of the Hooghly, and connects Fort William to Nimtala near Shovabazar, through the downtown Kolkata. But during the existence of the Old Fort
It was Calcutta when British aristocrats, senior East India Company officials and young Brits, who had landed in this native land with a job, were bored due to lack of any languid activity. They had no place to sit and relax, to chat or debate
Navpreet Arora is a story teller, an explorer and a heritage enthusiast. Does an edifice qualify as a heritage building only if it has a grandiose name associated with it, does it qualify as a heritage building only if its facades have mighty columns, intricate carvings
Wonder, what would have Ronald Ross said, had he witnessed the string of deaths in Kolkata in recent months due to dengue and thousands more affected by malaria? Worse still, 40% of malarial patients in the city are not even responding to the standard malarial
IOn July 26, this year, Kolkata was shocked as city newspapers screamed “at least two people died and several were feared trapped in the debris of a dilapidated century-old building that collapsed at 10 Indian Mirror Street at Taltala.” Indian Mirror Street in the Janbazar-Taltala
Rituparna Roy was in Berlin when she had her moment of epiphany. Walking through the Eisenman architectural Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, she suddenly, in her own words, “realised the enormity of the crime”. And what brought this home to her was not
210 Cornwallis Street House No. 210 on Cornwallis Street has a special significance as it belonged to Gurucharan Mahalanobis, grandfather of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, famous statistician and scientist. He had a medicine shop in his house. His second son, Prabodh Mahalanobis shut down the shop and
At last India’s favourite Pancham da, the genius music maestro R.D. Burman can be related to Kolkata, as the house where he stayed and grew up in Calcutta and its neighbourhood will be renamed as Sangeet Sarani. West Bengal Heritage Commission chairperson Shuvaprasanna, along with
From House No 13, Upendrakishore Roychowdhury relocated with his family to House No. 7 on Shibnath Das Lane. His children and siblings followed him. Upendrakishore’s younger sister Mrinalini was married to Anandamohan Basu’s nephew, Hemendramohan Basu. He was Anandamohan’s elder brother, Haramohan Basu’s son. He
Once upon a time social life in old Calcutta was grand and the European community was always on the look out for recreation, far from their own homes in England. The recreational activities were so popular, specially during winter months, that as per an article