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The document provides information on several famous places and cultural aspects of Kolkata, India. It discusses the Victoria Memorial, Alipore Zoological Gardens, Indian Museum, Science City, popular street foods like panipuri and yogurt, cultural dresses like the sari and dhoti, famous sports like cricket and football, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and his contributions to Bengali literature and music. The document aims to give readers an overview of the culture and heritage of Kolkata through these examples.

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The document provides information on several famous places and cultural aspects of Kolkata, India. It discusses the Victoria Memorial, Alipore Zoological Gardens, Indian Museum, Science City, popular street foods like panipuri and yogurt, cultural dresses like the sari and dhoti, famous sports like cricket and football, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and his contributions to Bengali literature and music. The document aims to give readers an overview of the culture and heritage of Kolkata through these examples.

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RITIKA AND BANDANA

Kolkata /koʊlˈkɑːtɑː/ (pronounced: [kolkat̪a], also known as Calcutta /kælˈkʌtə/, the official name until
2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it is
the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's
oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. In 2011, the city had a population of 4.5 million,
while the population of the city and its suburbs was 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous
metropolitan area in India

FAMOUS PLACES ON KOLKATA


The Victoria Memorial is a large marble museum and tourist destination under the
building in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West auspices of the Ministry of Culture.[2] The
Bengal, India, which was built between 1906 memorial lies on the maidan (grounds) by the
and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of bank of the Hooghly River, near Jawaharlal
Queen Victoria (1819–1901), and is now a Nehru road.[3]

tortoise Adwaita, which was reputed to have


been over 250 years old when it died in 2006. It
The Alipore Zoological Gardens (also informally
is also home to one of the few captive breeding
called the Alipore Zoo or Calcutta Zoo) is India's
projects involving the Manipur brow-antlered
oldest formally stated zoological park (as
deer. One of the most popular tourist
opposed to royal and British menageries) and a
attractions in Kolkata, it draws huge crowds
big tourist attraction in Kolkata, West Bengal. It
during the winter season, especially during
has been open as a zoo since 1876, and covers
December and January. The highest attendance
18.81 ha (46.5 acres). It is probably best known
till date was on December 25, 2016 with 81,000
as the home of the now expired Aldabra giant
visitors.
RITIKA AND BANDANA

The Indian Museum is the largest and oldest was founded by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in
museum in India and has rare collections of Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1814. The founder
antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, curator was Nathaniel Wallich, a Danish botanist
skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings. It
.

Science City, Kolkata is the largest centre was inaugurated by two parts: the
science centre in the Indian subcontinent[4] ‘Convention Centre Complex’ was
under National Council of Science unveiled on 21 December 1996 by Paul
Museums (NCSM), Ministry of Culture, Jozef Crutzen in presence of the then chief
Government of India, is at the crossing of minister Jyoti Basu and the whole centre
Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and J B S was opened by the then prime minister
Haldane avenue, Kolkata. It is considered Inder Kumar Gujral on 1 July 1997. On 10
by some people as the most distinguished January 2010, prime minister of India,
landmark in post-independence Kolkata.[5] Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone
Saroj Ghose, the first director general of for the second phase of Science City in
NCSM, who is credited with having presence of the then chief minister of West
conceptualised this centre in 1997.[6] This Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.[7]
RITIKA AND BANDANA

Panipuri is a common street snack in several and Telangana its is called as Pani Puri While
regions of the Indian subcontinent. In East in Odisha it is known as GupChup. It consists
India, it is known as Phuchhka while in North of a round, hollow puri, fried crisp and filled
India, it is called Golgappa, In Andhra Pradesh with a mixture of flavor

The chicken is a type of domesticated fowl, a 19 billion as of 2011. Humans keep chickens
subspecies of the red junglefowl. It is one of primarily as a source of food, consuming both
the most common and widespread domestic their meat and their eggs.
animals, with a total population of more than
RITIKA AND BANDANA

Rasgulla is a syrupy dessert popular in the dumplings of chhena and semolina dough,
Indian subcontinent and regions with South cooked in light syrup made of sugar. This is
Asian diaspora. It is made from ball shaped done until the syrup permeates the dumplings.

Yogurt, yoghurt, or yoghourt is a food as "yogurt cultures". Fermentation of lactose


produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. by these bacteria produces lactic acid
The bacteria used to make yogurt are known
RITIKA AND BANDANA

BOTIQUE SAREE

A sari, saree, or shari is a female garment feet (60 cm to 1.20 m) in breadth that is
from the Indian subcontinent that consists of a typically wrapped around the waist, with one
drape varying from five to nine yards (4.5 end draped over the shoulder
metres to 8 metres) in length and two to four

The dhoti, also known as vesti, dhuti, mardani, the Madhesh region of southern Nepal, worn
dhoteé, chaadra, dhotra, and pancha, is a mainly by Nepalis of Madhesi, Tharu and
traditional men's garment, worn in the Indian Maithali ethnicity.[1] It is a rectangular piece of
subcontinent mainly by Indian, Nepalese and unstitched cloth, usually around 4.5 metres
Bangladeshi people. It is worn predominantly in (15 ft) long, wrapped around the waist and the
the countries of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, legs and knotted at the waist
Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It is the national dress of
.
RITIKA AND BANDANA

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the
centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a
wicket at each end. One team bats, attempting to score
as many runs as possible…

Association football, more commonly known as spherical ball. It is played by 250 million
football or soccer, is a team sport played players in over 200 countries and
between two teams of eleven players with a dependencies
RITIKA AND BANDANA

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and
Ravīndranātha Thākura, sobriquet Gurudev, early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its
was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse
literature and music, as well as Indian art with
",

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