About Kolkata City
Kolkata the City of joy as its renowned to be is also the podium of heritage and artistic thoughts. The unique culture of Kolkata upholds the spirit of intellectuality and literary for which the city is quoted as the “Cultural capital of India”.
The social life of Kolkata consists of a distinctive concept of neighborhood bonding called “para” in local language.The Kolkatans represent a strong sense of bonding. Every para maintain a community hall specially known as club. This is a gathering place for recreation like playing cards, chess, ludo and leisurely chatting. The leisurely chatting is famously known as Adda.
Kolkatans habitually indulge in Adda over a cup of tea and cigarettes. Kolkata is a wonderful mirror of the Bengalis who call it home – volatile poets, sensitive artists and romantic men and women. It’s the city of the artsy, the quaint, the intellectual – indeed, of anyone with an enormous zest for life. Music, dance, theatre and cinema are finely woven into the very fabric of the Kolkata culture.
Food is Calcutta’s greatest indulgence.Bengalis love to eat, and their great hosts. Every meal ends with the choicest of dessert, and Calcutta’s range of sweets can leave you quite winded!
Introduction to Kolkatadreams.com
Stunning beauties, scholars, writers, nobel laureates, film directors, musicians, freedom fighters, intellectuals….endless is the number of great personalities/jewels that a culture has provided to India.
Bengal is the place and Kolkata is the hub. KolkataDreams serves you the picturesque of the ethnic Kolkata.
The site unfolds the diversified heritage of the “city of joy”. From art and culture to today’s lifestyle, from Bengali cuisines to beautiful places around the city,
we in this site provide you all. This site is a palate of the taste of Kolkata. Wrapped in the Victorian era, and sprinkled with the spices of contemporary verve, Kolkata unleashes the beauty of ethnicity. This beauty is captured and served to you by Kolkatadreams.com
A website that not only connects the Bengalis but bonds the hearts of all the Indians through a remarkable culture. Kolkata is one of the country’s most fascinating centre and has some scenes of rare beauty.
Certainly the people are a friendly bunch and Bengali humour is renowned throughout India. Jewel of the east, city of joy… During the British Raj Kolkata was known as the Jewel of the East and was the capital of the country till 1911. It still bears the Victorian imprint on its streets and structures. Today, it is still the most important city in the east, the nerve center of trade and industry of the State.
Kolkata is a a British creation which dates back only some 300 years and was the capital of British India until the beginning of this century. Festivals are a fundamental element of the city – more a socio-cultural phenomenon than a religious one. Besides festivals, Calcutta also showcases a variety of fairs, film fests, music conferences and folk fairs.
