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The Lal Mandir is an old Hindu temple in the locality of Shobhabazar, at the crossing of Raja Nabakrishna Street and Jyotindra Mohan Avenue of Kolkata, India. [1] [2] It is said to be built by the Raja of Shobhabazar. It is located near Sobhabazar Metro Station entrance.
In 1972, when Dutta (then 21 and a student of Scottish Church College in Kolkata majoring in Bengali [3]) visited the National Library looking for little magazines he found out how they were kept in a condition of utter neglect. [1] [4] [2] According to Dutta, he was "shown a heap of books tied in bundles, with more dust and worms in them than ...
Kolkata is home to the world's oldest active polo club, the Calcutta Polo Club. Situated on the Maidan, the club was founded in 1862 and is the second oldest polo club in the world. Kolkata has yet another polo club in the Fort William Polo Club. The CPC polo grounds are located in the maidan and maintained jointly with the RCTC.
PDFtk (short for PDF Toolkit) is a toolkit for manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It runs on Linux , Windows and macOS . [ 5 ] It comes in three versions: PDFtk Server ( open-source command-line tool ), PDFtk Free ( freeware ) and PDFtk Pro ( proprietary paid ). [ 2 ]
Parameswaran Thankappan Nair (30 April 1933 – 18 June 2024) was an Indian writer, independent researcher, historian and Malayali author based in Kolkata, who wrote extensively on the history of Calcutta in the English language. [3] Fondly referred to as the "Barefoot Historian", [4] he published 61 books, with the latest titled "Gandhiji in ...
Central Reference Library is an Indian National Bibliographic Agency in Kolkata which run under Ministry of Culture of India. [1] It provides bibliographic services to scholars, universities, institutions and government agencies. [2] This library has started doing digitalization of rare and old books and documents. [3]
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has expanded dramatically.
Bagbazar (also spelt Baghbazar) is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The area, under Shyampukur police station of Kolkata Police, [1] has been, along with neighbouring Shyambazar, the citadel of the Bengali aristocracy. [2] Bagbazar has played an active role in growth and development of ...