Architectural, Cultural sights in Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Tagore's House
Within Rabindra Bharati University, Rabindranath Tagore's comfortable 1784 family mansion (Tagore's House) has become a shrine-like museum to India's greatest modern poet. Even if his personal effects don't inspire you, some of the well-chosen quotations might spark an interest in Tagore's deeply universalist philosophy.
There's also a decent gallery of paintings by his family and contemporaries. The photo of Tagore with Einstein could win a 'World's Wildest Hair' competition.
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Netaji Bhawan
Netaji Bhawan, an interesting museum celebrating the life and vision of controversial independence radical Subhas Chandra Bose, maintains several rooms decorated in 1940s style. It was Bose’s brother’s residence from which Subhas made his famous ‘Great Escape’ from British-imposed house arrest in January 1941. The veteran getaway car is parked in the drive.
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Raj Bahvan
Beyond the Sahid Minar is a sombre WWI cenotaph and a statue of LBG Tilak who disdains the perfectly framed (if gated) view of the grand 1799 Raj Bahvan. Though designed to resemble Lord Curzon's English country house, the Raj Bahvan actually looks more like the US White House. It's now the highly-guarded official residence of the West Bengal governor.
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Curzon Mansion
Directly south of the zoo's entrance, the access road to the National Library loops around the very regal Curzon Mansion, once the colonial Viceroy's residence. It's not (yet) a museum.
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