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The library collects book, periodicals, and titles in virtually all the Indian languages while the special collections in the National Library of India house at least fifteen languages. [13] The Hindi department has books that date back all the way to the nineteenth century and the first ever books printed in that language.
Constructed in 1767, it houses the graves of British soldiers and is claimed to be haunted by the same. [28] Writers' Building, Kolkata: Various stories and legends claim that Writers' Building near the B.B.D. Bagh that serves as the secretariat of the Government of West Bengal, is haunted by spirits of the dead. [26]
Putulbari or the House of Dolls, Kolkata: According to believers, the site is haunted by the souls of the dead. [37] Hastings House, Alipore, Kolkata: According to legend, students have seen ghosts on the grounds. [38] Writers' Building, Kolkata: According to legend, this residence of junior servants and administrative staff is haunted. [38]
The objective of the project is to collect and collate metadata and provide full text index from several national and international digital libraries and other relevant sources. The NDLI provides free access to many books and is designed to hold content in any language, offering search support for the 12 most widely used Indian languages.
Nakulan and his wife Ganga, who have been living in Kolkata, decide to take a vacation to Nakulan’s ancestral village in Kerala. This is Ganga’s first visit to her husband’s place. Despite warnings from elder family members, Nakulan insists on staying at his ancestral home, the Madampalli Tharavad, which is apparently haunted. The rest of ...
When the capital moved from Kolkata to Delhi in 1911, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, who had hitherto resided in Belvedere House, was upgraded to a full governor and transferred to Government House. [11] National Library of India, Kolkata, has been housed in Belvedere House since 1948.
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]
Kolkata Little Magazine Library. Kolkata has a prominent place in the history of Little Magazine Movement in India which was largely dominated by Bengali language magazines. This goes back to the foundation of Sabuj Patra in 1914 and Kallol in 1923. The tradition continued with the advent of Post Modernist writing in Bengali Literature.