Kolkata (Calcutta) Sights

Dark sights in Kolkata (Calcutta)

  1. A

    St John’s Church

    More colonnades buttress the stone-spired 1787 St John’s Church. The small, portrait-draped room on the right as you enter was once used as an office by Warren Hastings, Bengal’s first British governor-general.

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  2. B

    Shanagar Burning Ghat

    On the putrid Tolisnala Stream, Shanagar Burning Ghat hosts an impressive gaggle of monuments to celebrities cremated there.

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