City Tour
A 300 year old city…The birthplace of poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Jagdish- Chandra Bose and Subhash Chandra Bose, the great freedom fighter… The city which boasts of the Howrah Bridge, 467 m long and the only bridge of its kind in Asia… The city of enchanting monuments, interesting museums, lavish mansions and friendly people…Welcome to Kolkata, the largest city of India and the capital of West Bengal. Kolkata was the capital of India under the British until they moved the capital to Delhi in 1911. It is said that kolkata received its name when Sati killed herself by self-immolation after her father insulted her husband, Lord Shiva. But Lord Shiva arrived a little too late, after his wife’s body was already burning. He took the body from the fire and started his dance of cosmic destruction. The other gods wanted to stop his dance and they requested Lord Vishnu to convince him. Lord Vishnu cut Sati into 51 pieces and made Shiva to stop the dance. It is said that Sati’s toe fell at Kali Ghat in the south part of Kolkata. Therefore, the city was called Kalikata and later Kolkata.
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