Zion Via Lenz #1.5 – Tale of Corners
My city knows my every secret, My first kiss, My first crush, My first puff and those truths that I have never ever said even to myself. Similarly, my city has its own secrets...
Category: Kolkata
Gerasim Lebedev – Pioneer of Bengali Theater
Calcutta (Now Kolkata) is known as Intellectual Hub, specially for Films, Music, Literature, Theater and other art forms. When we talk about Bengali Theater, one name automatically comes in mind, Gerasim Lebedev also spelled...
Synagogues of Kolkata
The “essence and feel” of the city Calcutta is still present in Kolkata. This is the best place for all irrespective of class and creed. That was the reason, many people from different cultures...
Neveh Shalome Synagogue Kolkata
When Jewish started migrating to Calcutta (Now Kolkata), India for settlement in early eighteenth century, it was obvious that for daily worship they would required place for it, community would establish Synagogue here. First...
Grave of First Professor of Surgery – Dr.Lalit Mohan Banerji
On 25th of July 1941, the day Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore was shifted from Shantiniketan to his Calcutta residence in Jorasanko for treatment. During that period health condition of Gurudev was detorated. He would have...
When Tagore met Ramakrishna – The House of Mitra Family
Anyone can imagine that two great sons of India, Gurudeva Rabindranath Tagore himself playing the piano and singing a song for another great son of India Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. It is a fact, indeed it...
The Last Boat – Cemetery of Brahmo Samaj
When we talk about or refer anything to Cemetery or Graveyard in India, in general perspective, we relate them to either to Christians or to the Muslims. For a separate layer of people, who...
Haji Jamaluddin Mosque
Haji Jamaluddin Masjid is a very simple single storeyed mosque. Artistic design of floors with combination of white and black marble in Persian style is really beautiful but from outside the mosque is very...
