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It's
location
is
next
to
the
New
Secretariat
Building,
Kolkata.
It
was
erected
to
perpetuate
the
memory
of
Lord
Metcalfe,
Governor
General
of
India,
1835-36.
The
order
of
architecture
is
taken
from
the
portio
of
the
temple
of
the
winds
at
Athens
and
the
design
was
chosen
by
the
Mr.
C.
K.
Robinson,
giving
it
extremely
much
appearance
of
a
Greek
temple
of
lofty
storey.
It
is
declared
as
centrally
protected
monument
in
1992.
It
is
superbly
maintained
by
the
Archaeology
Survey
of
India.
Lord
Metcalfe
instituted
a
number
of
important
reforms,
chief
among
which
was
freedom
of
the
press.
He
was
called
"Liberator
of
the
Indian
Press".
To
mark
Metcalfe's
actions
towards
freedom
of
the
press,
it
was
decided
to
set
up
a
Public
Library.
The
construction
was
started
in
1840
and
completed
in
1844.
Now
it
is
a
heritage
building
in
the
heart
of
the
city.
It
is
a
knowledge
center
of
Kolkata
City.
It
is
a
miniature
of
Kolkata
City.
It
enlightens
us
that
the
College
Street,
book
market,
is
the
largest
second
hand
book
market
in
the
world.
Fort
William
College
made
Kolkata
a
center
for
polyglot
literary
practice
and
orientalist
scholarships.
Raja
Ram
Mohun
Roy,
Mir
Aman,
Abdul
Kalam
Azad,
Sarat
Chandra
Chatterjee,
William
Carey,
Iswar
Chandra
Vidyasagar,
Peary
Chand
Mitra,
Bankim
Chandra
Chatterjee,
Rassundari
Dasi,
Upendra
Kishore
Raichaudhuri,
Sukumar
Roy,
Satyajit
Ray,
Lila
Majumdar,
Abanindranath
Tagore,
Bhibhutibhusan,
Tarasankar,
Manik,
Rajsekhar,
Mahasweta
Devi,
Ashapurna
Debi,
Derozio,
Michael,
Rabindranath
(Nobel
for
Gitanjali).
The
earliest
literature
in
the
dramatic
form
were
the
indigenous
Jatra
Palas.
We
are
informed
art
like
William
Hodges,
Abanindranath
Tagore,
Gagenendranath
Tagore,
Nandalal
Bose,
Ramkinkar
Baej,
Ganesh
Pyne,
Paritosh
Sen.
Colonial
Calcutta
in
the
18th
century
saw
dance
by
the
courtesans
or
baiji's,
who
performed
at
the
mansions
of
the
wealthy,
which
involved
mainly
Kathak
in
the
Awadhi
style
of
Lucknow.
Rabindranath
Tagore
produced
a
mixture
of
Manipuri,
Kathakali
and
folk
forms.
Udoy
Shankar.
Here
we
come
to
know
that
Mr.Stephens
started
to
produce
cinema
in
1897.
The
first
Bengali
film
Dhiren
Ganguly's
Bilet
Pherat,
released
in
1921.
Pramathesh
Barua,
Kanan
Debi,
Pankaj
Mullick,
K.
L.
Saigal,
Debaki
Bose,
Satyajit
Ray's
Pather
Panchali
(1955)
became
a
land
mark
of
world
cinema.
Ritwik
Ghatak,
Mrinal
Sen,
Tapan
Sinha.
It
enables
us
to
know
the
music
of
Kolkata.
Kabigan,
Akhrai,
Tappa
attracted
the
imagination
of
the
Bengal's.
Ramnidhi
Gupta,
Kali
Mirza,
Ramprosad
Sen,
Bhola
Moira.
Nawab
Wajid
Ali
Shah's
arrival
in
1858
was
the
key
in
the
development
of
classical
music.
Kazi
Nazrul
Islam,
Ut.
Ali
Akbar
Khan,
Ut.
Amjad
Ali
Khan,
Pt.
Nikhil
Banerjee,
Pt.
Ravisankar,
Hemanta
Mukherjee,
K.
L.
Saigal,
Shyamal
Mitra,
Manna
Dey,
Sandhya
Mukhopadhy.
Kolkata
has
been
the
cradle
of
thought
for
the
nation
and
the
world.
The
city
has
birthed
and
nurtured
thinkers,
revolutionaries,
scholars
and
adventurers.
Kolkata
is
a
melting
pot
of
cultures
of
people,
cuisines
and
architecture.
By
the
banks
of
the
river
Hooghly,
there
is
a
neighborhood
in
north
Kolkata
where
the
God
and
Goddess
are
born....in
clay.
It
is
a
spiritual
place.
Few
wise
persons
relating
to
the
city
are
Sri
Ramakrishna,
Swami
Vivekananda,
Keshab
Sen,
Swami
Pranabananda,
Sister
Nivedita,
Sri
Aurobinda,
Swami
Abhedananda,
Swami
Prabhupada,
Ma
Sarada
Devi,
Anandamoyee
Ma,
Mother
Teresa.
Few
great
politicians
are
Bipin
Pal,
S.
N.
Banerjee,
Deshbandhu
C.
R.
Das,
Netaji
Subash
Bose,
Aurobinda
Ghosh
etc.
The
great
scientist
are
Acharya
Sir
P.
C.
Roy,
S.
N.
Bose,
J.
C.
Bose.
Large
part
of
Kolkata's
sense
of
identity
is
rooted
in
its
past.
Now
many
people
follow
the
policy
of
give
and
take
ie
mutual
concessions
and
compromises.
Here
Metcalfe
Hall's
entry
is
free.
We
express
sincere
gratitude,
thankfulness
and
appreciation
of
kindness
to
the
ASI,
the
Government
of
India
and
the
Government
of
West
Bengal.
The
ASI
enables
to
continue
to
keep
a
very
good
maintenance
by
checking/
repairing
it
regularly.
There's
a
clean
bathroom.
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