Food and Lodging information of Kolkata-VI

This blog is something different than my earlier five blogs on visible places of Kolkata.

I would like to give little information about some hotels of Kolkata . Though there are many hotels with their different  rates. So , anybody can stay there according to their planning.

A V Hotels Pvt . Ltd/ Website , www.fhrai.com/ Email , ashokesingh7@gmail.com
Alipore Guest House/ Website , www.aliporeguesthouse.com/Email , aghouse42@gamil.com
Allenby Inn/ Website , www.fhrai.com/ Email , allenbyinn@vsnl.net
Ashoka Hotels / Website , www.fhrai.com/ Email , ashokesingh7@gmail.com
Astoria Hotels/ Website , www.astoria.in/ Email , astoria@hotmail.com
Beeu Hotels/ Website , www.fhrai.com/ Email , beeuhotel@yahoo.com
Capital Guest House / Website , www.fhrai.com/ Email , cghcalcutta@yahoo.com
Chrome Hotels/ Website , www.chromehotel.in/ Email , stay@chromehotel.in
Circular Hotel Pvt . Ltd/ Website , www.fhrai.com/ Email , hotelcircular@gmail.com
Dee Empresa Hotels/ Website , www.deeempresa.com/ Email , booking@deeempresa.com
Executive Point/ Website , www.executivepoint.com/ Email , exepoint@cal.vsnl.net.in
Fairlawn Hotel Pvt . Ltd/ Website , www.fairlawnhotel.com/ Email , fairlawn@cal.vsnl.net.in
Green Inn/ Website , www.greeeninn.com/ Email , hotelgreeninn@yahoo.com
Heera Holiday Inn/ Website , www.heerainn.com/ Email , heerainn@gmail.com
Hotel Akash Deep/ www.hotelakashdeep.com.in/E-mail , hotelakashdeep@vsnl.net
Hotel Hindusthan International/ www.hindusthan.com/ resvn@hindusthan.com
Hotel Lindsay/ Website , www.hotellindsay.com/E-mail , hotellindsay@vsnl.net
Hotel VIP International/ www.vipcontinental.net/ hotel-vip@sify.com
Hayatt Regency/ www.kolkata.regency.hyatt.com/ kolka-hrk@hyatt.com
ITC Sonar Bangal/ www.itcwelcomgroup.in/ itcsonar@itcwelcomgroup.in
King Crown/ Website , www.kingcrownhotels.com /E-mail , kingscrownhotels@rediffmail.com
Hotel Walson/Website , www.fhrai.com/E-mail , info@walson.in
Hotel VIP Continental/Website , www.vipcontinental.net/E-mail , hotel-vip@sify.com
Hotel Victrerrace International/Website, www.victerracegroupofhotels.com/E-mail , hotelvic@gmail.com Hotel The Sojorun/Website , www.hotelthesojourn.com/E-mail , info@hotelthesojourn.com
Hotel Shalimar/Website, www.fhrai.com/E-mail , hotelshalimar@vsnl.com ,
Hotel Par Inn/Website , www.hotelparkinn.co.in/E-mail , hotelparkinn@hotmail.com
Hotel Paramount/Website , www.fhrai.com/E-mail , hotelparamount.hp@gmail.com
Hotel Oriental/Website , www.fhrai.com/E-mail , pranabbedi@gmail.com

Other than the above , there are many three stars/five stars hotels are also available for accommodation and food.Most of the hotels have pick-up and drop facility.

In my  coming next few blogs I will write brief about nearby places of Kolkata that are also great attraction.

Visible Places of Kolkata-Part-V

Salt Lake Stadium-Calcutta

In my earlier five blogs I have written brief of the history of Kolkata and few important visible sites of the city as there are many other places to visit such as ;

Princep Ghat- that was built at the time of British period and this was constructed under the supervision of
Mr Jems Princep , the famous researcher and the honourable secretary of Asiatic Society .

Kumartuli- The famous place of talented potters who work throughout the year,especially at the time of Bengali festivals like DurgaPuja , KaliPuja,etc. they are very busy . Their creation also go to foreign countries of the world where the Bengali communities belong .

BurraBazar-This place is famous from the British period.This place is the biggest wholesale market throughout the country.

Other than these , there are so many place surrounding Kolkata for amusement of the children and also the families;

Nicco Park- This is right place to go in weekend with family including children.This is Kolkata's Disneyland . There are having so much amusements if rides like Toy Train , Cable Car , water Chutes, water coasters, Moonwalker , cave ride , and also beautiful rose gardens and such a big food park.

Nalban Boating Complex- This place is located at the heart of the Salt Lake City . Distance from Kolkata is just 12 Kms of this place . This place is also superb and ideal to spent few hours with family , friends . Here have boats many boats like Sikara of Dal Lake of Kashmir . All boats are artistically decorated and waiting for a little trip of boating on the lake.

Swabhumi- This place is situated on the side of eastern bypass road and just opposite to Salt Lake stadium . This place is may consider as the gateway of India culture and arts . There are so many Mdhubani and Gond paintings , Dokhra arts , designer garments designed by famous designers . This place is always busy with various exhibition.

Salt Lake Stadium- This is a famous and so big stadium in the country . Several cultural programs are performed here . Mostly this field is known to the world football playing ground . Famous leagues and tournaments are organized here . Few worlds famous football players was played here.

Aquatica- This is a famous amusement water theme park which is unforgotten experience for all . There are several water rides which give adventure and thrill to the visitors . This water park is only five feet deep and waves are created artificially.

Wet-O-Wild- This is the latest addition of the water park . This wave pool is nearly forty thousand square feet spreads and twenty eight square feet is full of water . Here has artificially created sea beach .
All these amusements and cultural views are within much closed distance of Kolkata . 

Visible Places of Kolkata-Part-IV

St Paul's Cathedral Church-Calcutta

St Paul's Cathedral , This church was built between 1839 & 1847 . This church is one of the most important churches in India . It is situated at the eastern side of Victoria memorial hall and southern side of the Maidan . The tower of the church was broken in 1897 due to  an earthquake and redesigned and further rebuilt the same . Some plaques and discolored glasses will be found there .

St Andrews Church , This church was first opened for public in the year 1818 . This place belonged to Mayor's court and the Supreme Court of Calcutta in 1726-1792.This place was occupied by the Church of Scotland . This church was built under the supervision Maria Imhoff , wife of Sir , Hastings . The color of the church is white and distinguished of Doric friezes pillars .

Nakhoda Mosque , This is an important masque for Muslim . This is richly decorated . It is situated at Jacquaria Street , close to the junction of Chit pore Road and Mahatma Gandhi Road . Md Abdar Rahim Osman founded this mosque in the year 1926 .

Kalighat Temple , This is world famous Hindu temple of Goddess Kali . It is also called Kali Temple . There is a mythological myth that the little finger of Sati MA out of her 52 pieces was dropped at this place . Thus this temple was built on the basis of this myth . This temple is situated at the Kali temple road which is connected the SP Mukherjee road and also near to Hazra crossing . This place is very attractive to tourists of the world .

Pareshnath Jain Temple , This is very holy temple for Jains . This temple is very magnificent for its beauty enhanced by glasses and coloured stones . It was built in 1867 .

Dakshineswar Temple , This Hindu temple is situated at Dakshineswar and this place is almost 16 km from Kolkata . This place is famous for the famous Hindu spiritual Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa that got his nirvana at this temple . The sculpture of this temple is very magnificent and good looking . This is also very attractive place for tourists . Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansadev was the guru of the famous Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda . We can go there by train from Sealdaha Station or by bus or by car .

Belur Math , This is the Headquarter of Ramakrishna Math & Mission Society . This is a social organization which is involved in various social works for the welfare of the common people of the country . The architecture of Belur Math is very magnificent and nice view . This Math is the residence of monks and followers of Swamiji . This is nearly 16 Km far from Calcutta . There is frequent train service from Howrah . We can go there by  the bus or by car also . 

Visible Places of Kolkata-Part-III

View of Maidan

In my last three blogs , I am writing in brief about the visible places of Kolkata . Actually , there are so many place to visit in Kolkata .

Maidan: Maidan is actually the property of the Indian Army as well as of the Fort William . Nearly , 5 square kilometers of land was developed by the earlier British ruler . It was mainly developed for parade of their soldiers . Thus it is also known as Brigade Parade Ground . At the centre of this ground have a monument . This monument was founded in 1828 . It was dedicated to the name Sir David Ochterlony , the Major-general of British East India Company on his success against Marathas fight of Delhi and conquest over Gurkhas and Anglo- Nepalese's wars . This monument was designed by J P Parker and the cost of the construction paid from public funds . After independence , in 1969 , August , this monument renamed as Sahid Minar as dedicated in the name of those persons who were sacrificed their life towards the Indian freedom movement . The view of entire Kolkata from the top of this monument is very magnificent .

Eden Gardens Stadium: Eden Gardens is the famous cricket stadium in the world . It is the dream of every cricketer of the world to get chance to play cricket throughout his entire cricket life . Cricket playing was started in the year 1864 . Nearly 85 to 90 thousand spectators can sit here at a time . The glorious history of this cricket stadium is very attractive . Most of the famous cricketers of every national team of the world have played here . Beside of this stadium , the biggest Netaji indoor stadium is also situated . The siting capacity of this stadium is also huge . Both the stadiums are situated near Maidan . Opposite to the cricket stadium are having various tents of different football clubs . Near this cricket stadium are also having national radio station called Akash Bani . It was also founded at the time of British period . Opposite to radio stations are having Governor House , called Rajvavan .

Alipore Zoo , Alipore Zoo was opened for public in the year 1876 . This is oldest zoo of India . It was the creation of Sir Richard Camac Temple that was the Governor of Bengal during the time 1874 to 1877 of the British Period . There are rare collections of different animals in Alipore zoo . In front of the zoo are also having one aquarium which contains sea-fishes with exclusive verities .

Kolkata is situated on the bank of the river Ganges . So that , Ganges beauty is also the attraction of the tourists . Here is Millennium Park , from where the beauty of the Ganges is magnificent . Boats , Steamers are coming and going , crossing the Ganges , dropping passengers . There is circular Railway service near the bank of the Ganges of Kolkata side . This service is available between Majherhat to various places through Seladaha station .

The second Hooghly Bridge called Vidyasagar Setu is new addition which connects quickly Kolkata- Howrah and surroundings . It was constructed with latest technology , cable attachment which holds both sides of the bridge . Before this  bridged , there were two options to connect with Kolkata- Howrah , one Steamer- service and second one is Howrah Bridge which was constructed at the time of British period . Then to reach  longed distance between the Howrah and adjacent areas was very time taking matter . This new bridge has solved  the problem , now to reach various districts and adjacent provinces are possible within very short time due to this new bridge .

View of Monument

Visible Places of Kolkata-Part-II

Town Hall

Indian Museum: Indian Museum is one of the oldest museums of the entire Asia . This museum was established in the year 1814 . It is situated between Park Street and Lindsey Street . Here has kept 4000 years old mummy of a man of Egypt . Old coins , fossils , stone , ancient arts . In Bengali museum is called "Jadughar".

National Library: National Library is the largest library in India . It is situated at Alipur of South Kolkata . Earlier it was the house of Lt . Governor of Bengal at the time of British raj . Huge collection of rare books is having in this library . Not only that , collection of books of various languages of India is also having in this library . The surrounding of this library are also very beautiful .
Nehru Children Museum: This museum is situated on Chowringhe Road . This is specially made of the children.

Birla Planetarium: This is also an attractive place for tourists . The latest technology is used here to show the entire galaxy . This is also situated near Chowringhee Road .

Rabindra Bharati Museum: This museum is considered as storehouse with the collection of famous things used by the great noble prize winner Bengali poet , Rabindra Nath Tagore . Not only his items , but also his paintings , manuscripts , books , etc. the house of the poet is considered as heritage buildings . These buildings were constructed in 18th centuries.

Marble Palace: This situated at chorbagan area . This place is full of rare collection of antiques that has / had enough artistic and historical value . Most of these collections are related to Western arts and cultures with Victorian age furniture , paintings ,etc.

Shovabazar Raj Bari: This palace of Sovabazar was constructed by the king Nabokrishna deb . This is very old palaces considers / considered at the starting period of British Raj . The celebration of Durgapuja is the big festive of this palace and it is myth that the first Durgapuja was started in 1757 after the victory of the battle between Plassey by the first commander in chief of East India Company , Lord Robert Clive.

Town Hall: this hall is situated near Kolkata- High court . This building was constructed by the public lottery money in 1814 . The style of construction of this building is Western model.

Writer's Building: This building was constructed in 1770 by the British ruler of India.This is not one building, there are so many buildings , collectively called Writer's Building . Earlier this place was the residence of British administrative workers of clerical grade in the British ruler . After independence , these buildings are used for ministerial administrative works and minister chambers the Bengal State Government . This building is situated at BBD Bag ,Dalhousie .

Visible Places of Kolkata

Rickshaw Puller

Kolkata is a most decent place to visit . Since from the British raj , Kolkata is the prime centre of discussion of the country India . It is always highlighted by the other countries of the world . Kolkata was always advanced in culture , education and sociological development since from the British raj . British administrators were very much keen on this Kolkata as it was their capital . Thus one myth was very popular with the country that "what Calcutta thinks today , India thinks tomorrow".

Kolkata- the name of the city was given very shortly , just few years ago . Earlier it was known as Calcutta . Calcutta itself has a big history that I wrote in my earlier blog , "Kolkata- the city of history".

 
In the field of Art & Culture , first of all , the name of Academy of fine Arts . It is situated at heart of the city . This is one of the oldest fine art societies in the country . It has eight galleries at its ground floor . These eight galleries provide huge space for displaying exhibition single or group of arts of the artists . On the first floor have an extensive museum where has a large collection of various types of arts done by the famous artists of the country .

Birla Academy of Arts & Culture , This is another perceptible place in Kolkata . It is also popular like Academy of fine arts . Birla academy of arts & culture is absolute treasure for arts' fans . Its' all collections of India modern arts are enough to motivate to the new artists . These collections of modern arts are like to inspire the new artists generation after generation . Rabindra Sadan , Rabindra Sadan is an auditorium situated nearby academy of fine arts . It is dedicated to famous Bengali poet , Nobel Prize winner , Sri , Rabindra Nath Tagore . This is not a general auditorium , most of the time , the selected dramas , dance dramas , etc. is taken place . Other than these many functions , group theaters , etc. are also taken place at this auditorium .

Mohar Kunja , This is an open stage for performing various cultural programs , like traditional vocal song program performs by vocal artists , band music programs.

Victoria Memorial Hall , This memorial hall is constructed by earlier British ruler in the name of their Queen Victoria . This is a museum of various portraits , and other things which were used at that time . Surrounding this Victoria Memorial Hall is having beautiful and decorated garden as the cool example of natural beauty .

Nandan is another place of attraction of culture . It is constructed mainly for showing selected , prize winner movies of India and also of the foreign countries . The area of Nandan is also very beautiful and this is divided between two parts , Namdan-1 & Nandan- 2 .

In my coming blogs I will write in brief of other important places of Kolkata .

Kolkata- The City of History

Victoria Memorial Hall

The history of Kolkata initiated from the year 1690 when the British East India Company came to Bengal . Job Charnak , one of the administrators of this British company first came to Bengal to administrate their business . According to history records , he is the founder of this city . Actually , this city was incorporated of three villages , one is Kalikata , second one is Gobindapur and third one is Sutanuti . These three villages were separate identity like Kalikata was a village of fishing , Sutanuti was weavers who lived on the bank of the Hoogly River and third one is Govindapur , specifically , cannot be known about this village from the history record .

Then India was under the ruling of Mughal Emperor of Delhi . According to the administrative system of the Mughal Emperor , every place of the country were their jagirdari and they would appoint the landowners or zamindars as their jagirdar . These jaigirdars have two works one is control their places administratively and collect revenue from their villagers . After that they would send the major part of the revenue to the Mughal Emperor in due time . Thus , the Zamindar of these three villages was Sabarna Roy Choudhury .

The British East India Company was already taken permission to start their business in India from the Mughal Emperor before came to Kolkata . In 1698 , Job Charnak , the first administrator of that company purchased those three villages from the Zamindar , Sabarna Roy Chowdhury and thus the right of tax revenue collection was transferred to their hand .

Then already another European country , France existed in India for their business . They had reached in India before the British company . According to them India were the place suggested as gold mines . In the year 1712 , the British completed the Fort William that is still having on the east side of the bank of the river Hoogly . They constructed this fort William facing frequent battle with French forces . In the year 1756 , the British company was started to develop their militarization .

Then Siraj-Ud-Daulah was the Nawab of Bengal.He protested against this British militarization and warned them . But the company administrators were ignored that warning , then Nawab attacked them and captured the fort William . After that the Nawab started to kill the British war prisoners . But this win did not stay longer ; Robert Clive , the leader of the British troops was again recaptured the city in 1757 approximately after the serious battle at the field of Plessey of Murshidabad and the city was declared the presidency city .

Thus the new era was started since then ; Kolkata declared as Bengal presidency by the British . Thereafter a new history was created by British after captured the entire country . Bahadur-Sha-Jafar was the last Mughal Emperor probably from whom the ruling stick of India was snatched by the British . Since then , they captured India . After few many years , the ruling of this country was gone in the hand of Queen Elizabeth ; the East India Company was started to work on the lordship of the Queen .

Thus India became the colonial country of British Government . Then their capital was Bengal and in summer time Shimla was their temporary capital . Thus India was the colonial country of the British Government and it was continued next 200 years approximately .