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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]
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.
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).
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]
The Writers' Buildings or Mahakaran, often shortened to just Writers ', is the official secretariat building of the state government of West Bengal in Kolkata, India.The 150-metre long building covers the entire northern stretch of the Lal Dighi or Red Lake at the centre of historic B.B.D. Bagh, long considered as the administrative and business hub of the city.
"Hungry Stones" (Bengali: Kshudhita Pashan or Khudito Pashan) is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1895. The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted.