Writers' Building

The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati School (or CAG School) is a private high school in Kolkata, India. It has two buildings, one for the boys' and one for the girls' school. It is on Pollock Street in the Burrabazar area, the commercial hub of the city.CAG School was founded in 1893 by the Gujarati-speaking business community of Kolkata, with an aim to provide education to their children in their mother tongue, Gujarati language, lead by Seth Tribhovandas Hirachand Kothari, who remained its secretary for 50 from the it's inception. The school is patronized by the all Gujarati-speaking community, irrespective of their religion. Hindu, Jain, Kutchi and the Gujarati Muslims communities like Bohras, Memons and Khojas, contributed to its foundation and development.Gujarati remains the first language in the school where, until 1985-86, all subjects were taught in Gujarati. Now English is the medium of instruction. The school is affiliated to the WB Board and students have to appear for Madhyamik examinations for passing out. The same trust which runs the school has now started 'The Calcutta Anglo Gujarati College, which is affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology and offers courses in BBA and BCA.

The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.: 58  John Zephaniah Holwell, one of the British prisoners and an employee of the East India Company, said that, after the fall of Fort William, the surviving British soldiers, Indian sepoys, and Indian civilians were imprisoned overnight in conditions so cramped that many people died from suffocation and heat exhaustion, and that 123 of 146 prisoners of war imprisoned there died. Some modern historians believe that 64 prisoners were sent into the Hole, and that 43 died there. Some historians put the figure even lower, to about 18 dead, while questioning the veracity of Holwell's account itself.

B. B. D. Bagh, formerly called Tank Square and then Dalhousie Square (1847 to 1856), is the shortened version for Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh. It is the seat of power of the state government, as well as the central business district of Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Lal Dighi, also called the Tank Square or Dalhousie Square (Bengali pronunciation: [lal diɡʱi]) is a man-made water tank in Kolkata, India.

Chitpur (or Chitpore) is a neighbourhood in North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Sometimes, the entire area along Chitpur Road is referred to as Chitpur, although the various localities have distinctive names.

Netaji Subhas Road (abbreviated as N. S. Road), previously known as Clive Street, is an important thoroughfare in Central Kolkata that runs predominantly north to south in the B. B. D. Bagh neighborhood of Kolkata.

Taltala High School is a Bengali co-ed high school. It was established in the year 1910 by the Government of West Bengal. The school enrolls over 700 children, aged 4 to 18. It is located in the Entally neighborhood of the city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.The school consists of two buildings and is equipped with a laboratory. The school is open for both boys and girls in two separate shifts (girls during the morning and boys during the afternoon).

Raghumal Arya Vidyalaya, Kolkata, often abbreviated RAV, is a school for secondary and senior secondary education located at Vivekananda Road region of Kolkata founded by Arya Samaj. The school is affiliated to the State Boards WBBSE and WBCHSE and around 1,000 pupils are educated in it. The medium of instruction in this school is both in English and Hindi.Fee of the school is very affordable and teachers gives a good quality of education to the students. Its proper maintenance and management is done under Arya Samaj Trust.

Shree Jain Vidyalaya, Kolkata (Hindi: श्री जैन विद्यालय), often abbreviated SJV, is a school for secondary and senior secondary education located in Burrabazar region of Kolkata. The school is affiliated to the State Boards WBBSE and WBCHSE and more than 2900 pupils are enrolled in it. The school was founded in 1934 by Phushraj Bacchwat in whose honor the address of the school was renamed from Sukeas Lane to Phusraj Bachhawat Path. In year 2009, the school celebrated its Platinum Jubilee on completion of 75 years. Notable guests of the event included alumni Pawan Kumar Goenka, head of Mahindra's Automotive Division.The school currently has no principal.Sanjay kumar Pandey who was the former teacher and even student of shree jain vidyalaya is the headmaster of the school.

The Currency Building is an early 19th-century building in the B. B. D. Bagh (Dalhousie Square) central business district of Kolkata in West Bengal, India. The building was originally built in 1833 to house the Calcutta branch of the Agra Bank. In 1868, it was converted for use by the Office of the Issue and Exchange of Government Currency, an office of the Controller of the Currency under the British Raj. From 1935 until 1937, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) used the building as its first central office. The building remained in use, and was used at one time by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) as a storehouse. Authorities decided to demolish it in 1994. From 1996 to 1998, the CPWD undertook demolition; but the building was saved from being completely demolished by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. In 2003, custodianship passed to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which renovated the building from 2005 to 2019. On 11 January 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally dedicated and reopened it as a museum. The Currency Building is a three-story Italianate structure, consisting of floors covered by marble and Chunar sandstone. Its main entrance features a three-part gate made of wrought iron and Venetian windows. The building's central hall, now an open-air courtyard, was formerly topped by three large domes with skylights. During its use as a currency office, the central hall contained the exchange counters for banknotes, gold, silver, and small change. During the building's renovation, the central hall was reorganized into a space for open-air programmes.

The General Post Office, Kolkata is the central post office of the city of Kolkata, India, and the chief post office of West Bengal. The post office handles most of the city's inbound and outbound mail and parcels. Situated in the B. B. D. Bagh area, the imposing structure of the GPO is one of the landmarks in the city. Kolkata GPO is one of the five Philatelic Bureaus in the country (others being Mumbai GPO, Chennai GPO, Parliament Street, and New Delhi GPO) that are authorised to sell the United Nations stamps.

Millennium Park is a private park in Kolkata, situated along the Strand Road on eastern shore of Hooghly River for a stretch of 2.5 km near Fairlie Ghat and opposite to Railway Club. The park consists of landscaped gardens and children's amusement rides.It was opened along the riverside to provide a green area for Kolkata's polluted waterway. It is a millennium gift from Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority inaugurated on 26 December 1999. The park is part of the first phases of the Kolkata Riverside Beautification Project. The park is normally open from 11am-8pm, but currently closed since March 2020 after the COVID-19 lockdown.