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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.
It tells the story of a haunted mansion 'Choudhury Palace', where ghosts from different ethnic backgrounds and eras reside (a Bengali zamindar of 18th century, an actress of the 1930s, a modern rockstar, a soldier of Indian Army who died in Kargil, etc.). The film with its simple but humorous story went on to become a massive blockbuster of 2012.
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]
The digital library portal's development began as a pilot project (NDLI Ph-I) in April 2015. By 2016, the beta version of the portal went live. This period is marked for aggregating content and establishing partnerships with numerous institutions across India, including central libraries of various universities, public libraries, and other ...
The library was born on 23 June 1978 and was called "Library and Laboratory for Bengali Little Magazines" ("Bangla Samoyikpatra Pathagar O Gobeshona Kendro" [5]). It was established in the ground floor of Dutta's two storey ancestral home at 18M Tamer lane off College Street book market. Even now it consists of only two rooms at there.
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]
In the first and second stories the ghosts he talks about were Satyajit Ray's Anath Babur Bhoy and Brown Saheber Bari. The last one was Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay ’s Bhoot Bhobishyot . (Initially four stories were supposed to be filmed, but the fourth one, Lucknow-er Duel was dropped later to avoid the length).