কলকাতা KOLKATA

SHOURYA SHRIVASTAVA VIII ‘D’

ROLL NO.32
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• INTRODUCTION
• An unknown village having its grand history begin in
the late 17th Century with the arrival of the English
East India Company. Since then, it has seen
everything from being crowned as the royal capital of
the British Raj to heighted buildings that touch skies.
This joyous land is known to give rise to great souls
like Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa, Amartya
Sen and Amitabh Bachchan. With great stories to tell,
this city is in its right place as the cultural capital of
India.
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• LOCATION
• Kolkata is the capital
of West Bengal, with
its location in the east
sharing borders with
Bangladesh. It has
spread linearly along
the banks of
the Hooghly River.
The whole area is in
the Ganges Delta and
is monotonously
plain.
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• LANGUAGE: BENGALI
• Bangla is the second most spoken language in
India. With about 250 million native and about 300
million total speakers worldwide, it is the seventh most
spoken language in the world by total number of native
speakers and the tenth most spoken language by total
number of speakers. The importance of this language to
the countries of South Asia is illustrated by the history
of the national anthems of Bangladesh and India and
the national song of India, all first composed in the
Bengali language. It has also been named as “The
Sweetest Language Ever Spoken”.
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• WEATHER
• Kolkata has a Tropical wet-and-dry climate. The annual
mean temperature is around 25 ° C. Summers are hot
and humid with temperatures in the low 30's and during
dry spells the maximum temperatures often exceed
40 °C (104 °F) during May and June. Winter tends to
last for only about two and a half months, with seasonal
lows dipping to 9 °C . The highest recorded
temperature is 44 ° C and the lowest is 3 °C. Often
during early summers, dusty squalls followed by spells
of thunderstorm and heavy rains lash the city, bringing
relief from the humid heat.
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• LITERATURE
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• ENTERTAINMENT
• Kolkata has many entertaining things to offer to
everyone coming there. One can see fountains dancing
to the musical beats at the historical Victoria Memorial
Garden or visit the Science City. Nicco park, popularly
known as the Disneyland of Kolkata, offers much
pleasure to the guests. One can boat in the salt water
lake or have a look at India’s Largest, the Prayag Film
city. Readers can peacefully read in the National
Library or the American Library. The Indian Museum is
a great place for anyone wanting to learn about history.
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• VICTORIA MEMORIAL
• “A building stately, spacious, monumental and grand, to
which every newcomer in Kolkata will turn, to which all
the resident population, European and Native, will flock,
where all classes will learn the lessons of history, and see
revived before they eye the marvels of the past.“

• This is what Lord Curzon said while planning to build

this great Memorial for Queen Victoria. This is now a
museum and tourist destination under the auspices of
the Ministry of Culture. The Memorial lies on the banks
of the Hooghly River.
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• EDEN GARDENS CRICKET STADIUM
• Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata, India. It
is the home of the Bengal cricket team and
the IPL'sKolkata Knight Riders. With a seating capacity
of 66,000, it is thelargest cricket stadium in India, and
the second-largest cricket stadium in the world behind
the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Eden Gardens has been
called “Cricket's Answer to The Colosseum" and is
widely acknowledged to be one of the most iconic
cricket stadiums in the world.

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• TRAMS
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• PRAYAG FILM CITY
• A one stop destination for a film maker
where he can walk in with a script and walk
out with a film, This film city is India’s
largest one replacing the Ramoji Film City
of Hyderabad.
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• INDIAN MUSEUM
• The history of the origin and the growth of the
Indian Museum is one of the remarkable events
towards the development of heritage and culture
of India.

• Founded in 1814 at the cradle of the Asiatic

Society of Bengal, Indian Museum is the earliest
and the largest multipurpose Museum not only in
the Indian subcontinent but also in the Asia-
Pacific region of the world.
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• DURGA POOJA
• Durga Puja is the most glamourous and most popular festival in
Kolkata. No other Indian city celebrates Durga Puja as
enthusiastically as Kolkata. In Kolkata and its suburbs more than
4000 pandals are set up, all clamouring for the admiration and
praise of the populace. The city is adorned with lights and the
vibrant nightlife is the most exciting thing to experience during the
Puja. Streets, alleys, parks, houses and trees glitter with fairy lights.
People from all over the country visit the city at this time, and
every night is one mad carnival where thousands of people go
'pandal-hopping' with their friends, relatives and family. Thousands
of temporary food-stalls which cater to massive crowds are
installed on pavements and roadsides. Traffic comes to a standstill,
and indeed, most people abandon their vehicles to travel by foot
after a point. A special task force is deployed by Kolkata Police to
control law and order.
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• CUISINE
• Kolkata is the king of street food in India, with a
mishmash of stalls selling all variety of street
snacks and dishes, including traditional fare
like puchkas (fried sphere crisps with tamarind
water dipping sauces), jhal muris (seasoned rice
puffs) and singaras (samosas) as well as street
eats derived from other regional cuisines and
abroad. Its best lies in traditional Bengali
dishes, especially sweets like Roshagulla and
Chomchom.
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• ROSHOGOLLA
• When you think of Kolkata, you surely think
of “Roshogollas”., the white delicacies counted in the best
gifts given by Bengalis to India. But less of us know there
was a man who was called “Father of Roshogolla”. His
name was Sri Nobin Chandra Das, a tiny
confectionercoming from a family of sugar merchants.
One fine morning, a wealthy merchant came to his shop
and asked for a glass of water. Nobin, in his true Kolkata
hospitality style, offered him roshogollas along with it.
The merchant immediately bought a large quantity for
his family and friends. Nobin Chandra and his
roshogollas became famous in no time.
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• METRO TALES
• The city of Kolkata has many tales to tell with majority of
them related to the metro . One of them goes like this....
• The metro reached Rabindra Sarobar station. Like any
other public transport, whoever has to get down at the
next stop, stands near the gate from the previous station.
So when an old man sitting in the seat stood up, the young
man near the gate moved a little to let him go near the
gate. At the next station, the old man did not get out. The
young man asked him why he stood up. He pointed to a
young woman carrying a newborn baby sitting in the same
place where he had sat. The old man got out of the metro
eight stations later.
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• BOTANICAL GARDENS
• Botanical gardens of Kolkata situated 8 kms away from
the city, on the west bank of the Hooghly river, covering an
area of about 273 acres. Laid out in the year 1787, Kolkata
botanical garden is one of the oldest and largest botanical
gardens of India. It contains about 12,000 living perennial
plants and millions of dried out plants gathered from
world over. The main attraction of the botanical gardens is
the giant size banyan tree that is said to have the second
largest canopy in the world. Over here, you can find a
plethora of beautiful orchids and other colourful flowers.
The garden also has a library, where you can find a
valuable collection of books on botany. The botanical
garden of Kolkata houses trees of rarest variety.
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• NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
• Kolkata is also home to world renowned Nobel Prize winners in
various fields. In the year 1902, Sir Ronald Ross received the
Nobel Prize for his contribution in the field of Medicine. He was
also the first citizen of Kolkata to receive this prestigious award.
The year 1913 was truly a year of pride for Asians, Indians and
Calcuttans as Shri Rabindranath Tagore was awarded this award
for his work in the field of Literature. He was the first Asian and
Indian to whom this award was conferred to. In 1930 Dr. C.V.
Raman was awarded with the Nobel Prize for his contribution in
the field of Physics. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in
the year1979. Lastly, in the year 1998, Dr. Amartya Sen was
awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution in the subject of
Economics.