BBD Bagh (formerly Dalhousie Square) Kolkata (Calcutta)

south of Howrah Bridge, Kolkata (Calcutta) , West Bengal, India - Phone: 91 33 2225 4565

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    Sights of Kolkata

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    ... 8216; a number did send us on a wild goose-chase). Our lodgings were with the Bengal Buddhist Association in the BBD Bagh area, north of the popular backpacker area (Delhi had provided a stark reminder that backpackers unfortunately attract scumbags), ...

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    BBD Bagh

    ... . Or something like that. This was mostly decided on the steps to the closed building. Afterwards, Olivier said he was going to BBD Bagh (formerly Dalhousie Square) to wander around, so I joined him. He's a keen photographer, so we had many stops, but ...

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    Kolkata : de l'art de juxtaposer les extremes

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    ... traversee du West Bengale par jeep et par train, nous voila arrives dans la ville qui fait couler beaucoup d'encre, Kolkata (ex-Calcutta). A la rencontre de la ville En resume tout semble extreme dans cette ville de plus de 12 millions d'habitants : ...

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    A Holi-day on Holiday

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    ... ;deformed animal foetuses preserved in jars, this included a few human foetuses!   Following lunch we made our way north into the BBD Bagh area. Our first stop was the Ranji cricket Stadium. To our suprise We were allowed to just walk in and watch ...

  • 5

    Namaste India!

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    ... book and with a useless map, we were soon lost! We kept on walking around the former British residential area of town, BBD Bagh. We passed through very elegant British buildings which were indeed in deep contrast with the rest of the city. Among them, I ...

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    Being a tourist

    ... government buildings all have battalions of guards and army personnel huddled in posts out the fronts, rifles at the ready. In BBD Bagh I take a photo of the famous Writers Building before two army men hunkered down in their bunker wave their ...

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    Best for Last

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    ... EVER - Kolkata was starting to grow on us! After fully fueled we walked around the modern Park Street, and then up towards BBD Bagh, where many historical buildings are located.  Along the way many people stopped to ask us how we are and if ...

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    Kolkata

    Kolkata: - Mother Theresa's Missions of Charity - Sutter Street - Indian Museum - Eden Gardens - Sahid Minar - Raj Bhavan - BBD Bagh - Ferry Trip - Hooghly ...

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    Chaos, exhaust and headrolls Calcutta-style

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    Calcutta (Kolkata)- a 24-7 never ending honking and moving city, populated by 14.7 milion people. May is bringing near to boiling temperatures and I'm sweating just by laying down in the 37C (around 100F) heat. The honking from the street has been going ...

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    Truth And Myth

    ... center. It used to be the capital of British India (and the Brits left a massive collection of colonial mammoths in the BBD Bagh vicinity). There are some nice gardens (the Maidans) although they can't rival the beauty of Banglore's Lalbagh. The public ...