Tag: west bengal

The awaiting journey to a new destination – Bangladesh

September 1, 2018September 2, 2018 Maya

As the end of our Indian visa comes in bigs steps, we have to pack and pick up a new destination. We have been trice to Nepal, each time for 5 months. And in Sri Lanka too but it is far and the foundation does not allow us for the journey. We have chosen to visit Bangladesh. A new place... Read More

Culture Interesting facts

Rabindranath Tagore

August 8, 2018August 9, 2018 Maya

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law, he returned to India, and instead pursued a career as a writer, playwright, songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in the Calcuttaarea of India where... Read More

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Forgotten Walls

August 4, 2018August 4, 2018 Maya

Wandering trough the streets of Puri, I came across this object covered with green. It is an old temple of Krishna facing a newly built one. Inspired by this subject, I dug other old photos … Below are photos from the Portuguese Fort in Canacona, the state of Goa. Here is an old abandoned house built in the... Read More

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Culture of Bauls

February 11, 2018February 11, 2018 Maya

The culture of Western Bengal in its natural meaning is first of all the creation of Bauls, mystics so old that one can find their connection with not only religions but also the sciences that are commonly called esoteric. It seems that the whole ancient Asiatic culture originates or is interconnected with this culture of ancient travelers. And the most interesting... Read More

India Transport

Complications in railways, from Santiniketan to Gaya

March 6, 2017April 2, 2017 Maya

All day I have spend on packing and getting ready. Our Russian friends came in the evening to say goodbye. It was one woman with her nephew. We had spend this time together talking, sharing and playing games but because he had to go to school next day, they were obligated to go early home. So 8 o’clock we had... Read More

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Kolkata: The Great Banyan Tree And Botanical Garden

March 3, 2017August 19, 2017 Maya

The Great Banyan Tree is located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, near Kolkata. The great banyan tree draws more visitors to the garden than its collection of exotic plants from five continents. Its main trunk became diseased after it was struck by two cyclones, so in 1925 the main trunk of the tree was amputated to keep... Read More

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Kolkata: Indian museum

March 2, 2017April 22, 2020 Maya

The Indian Museum is the largest and oldest museum in India. It has rare collections of antiques, armour, ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings. It was founded by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Kolkata, in 1814. The founder curator was Nathaniel Wallich, a Danish botanist. It has six sections comprising thirty five galleries of cultural and scientific artifacts... Read More

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Kolkata

February 28, 2017April 25, 2020 Maya

It is a big city, megacity. Also called Calcutta (the official name until 2001). It is the capital city of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River (Ganges), it is the cultural, and educational center of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India’s oldest operating port. Kolkata is third most populous metropolitan area in India. By my experience... Read More

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Kolkata: Castle of Queen Victoria

February 27, 2017April 25, 2020 Maya

The Victoria Memorial Is a large marble building in Kolkata… Which was built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), and is now a museum. It has a big, full of flowers garden around the building and it is beautifully made from inside and outside. The construction has got some motive of Taj Mahal. The... Read More

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To Kolkata, Day 1

February 23, 2017April 23, 2020 Maya

We took a train to Kolkata Our friends, owners of the house we were renting, invited us to their house in Kolkata for just few days. I was the most exited one so I took the planning on myself. We decided with owners that we will come on Friday and go on Sunday. To know what to see there I... Read More