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, ...

Dutta depicts Calcutta's many faces in this erudite guide to the city, which is part of the Cities of the Imagination Series. The author, who was born and raised in Calcutta and who has translated ...

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 ...