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English. Box office. $2.8 million (US rentals) [ 1] 1,220,580 admissions (France) [ 2] Calcutta is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by John Farrow, and written and produced by Seton I. Miller. The drama features Alan Ladd, Gail Russell and William Bendix. [ 3]
Binodini Dasi (1863–1941), also known as Noti Binodini, was an Indian Bengali actress. [ 1] She started acting at the age of 12 and ended by the time she was 23, as she later recounted in her noted autobiography, Amar Katha (The Story of My Life) published in 1913. [ 2][ 3]
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. Debi Prasad Sarkar, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [53] Brajendra Nath Seal, Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University and the University of Mysore. Ashoke Sen, string theorist. Dinesh Chandra Sen, scholar of early Bengali literature.
Amar Kutir (আমার কুটির) (meaning: my cottage), once a place of refuge for independence movement activists has been turned into a cooperative society for the promotion of arts and crafts. [1] It is located on the banks of the Kopai River, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Santiniketan in Birbhum district in the Indian state of ...
Dwijendralal Ray's Dwijendrageeti (the Songs of Dwijendralal), which number over 500, create a separate subgenre of Bengali music. Two of Dwijendralal Ray's most famous compositions are Dhana Dhanya Pushpa Bhara and Banga Amar Janani Amar. Ray is regarded as one of the most important figures in early modern Bengali literature.
Satyendra Nath Bose FRS, MP [1] (/ ˈ b oʊ s /; [4] [a] 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician.He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
Amrita Bazar Patrika. Amrita Bazar Patrika was one of the oldest daily newspapers in India. Originally published in Bengali script, [3] it evolved into an English format published from Kolkata and other locations such as Cuttack, Ranchi and Allahabad. [4] The paper discontinued its publication in 1991 after 123 years of publication.
The Black Hole Memorial, St. John's Church, Calcutta, India. In memoriam of the dead, the British erected a 15-metre (50') high obelisk; it now is in the graveyard of (Anglican) St. John's Church, Calcutta. Holwell had erected a tablet on the site of the 'Black Hole' to commemorate the victims but, at some point (the precise date is uncertain ...