In 1911, the British announced at the Delhi Durbar that India’s capital would shift from Calcutta (Kolkata) to Delhi, a city ...

Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal and an active cultural hub, is a blend of history, tradition, and culture. Like any other Indian state, Kolkuta boasts of dense Indian heritage when it comes to ...

Kolkata carries an almost crushing burden of history. Spawned in the sandbanks of three malarial villages by the Hooghly, Kolkata flourished. From being a minor trading outpost in the lower delta of ...

Annales de démographie historique, LES TRANSITIONS DEMOGRAPHIQUES (1988), pp. 243-257 (15 pages) Job Charnok of the English East India Company is supposed to have founded the city of Calcutta in 1690, ...

Yes, Calcutta loves its Biryani with all the aloo’s of the world, and has never forgotten its origin story with Wajid Ali ...

‘Mappa Theke Manchitra’ explored P. M. Bagchi’s rich repository of the city’s documentation through the 18th and 19th century Led by (L-R) Epsita Halder and Sarbajit Mitra, Kolkatans discovered the ...

Human civilisation took a giant leap on December 23, 1903, when two brothers — Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright — first took a flight in their newly invented flying machine. Their amazing invention ...