Central Calcutta is a compact, congested area sprawling up along the west bank of the Hooghly River, from the Zoological Gardens in the south up to Howrah Bridge some 5 km (3 miles) north. Over the bridge are some of ...

Close to the sea, and at low altitude, Calcutta suffers a lot of humidity. It is best visited November to February, though for colour, spectacle and culture come for the 3-week Durga Puja festival of September-October. But Calcuttans hold festivals ...

kolkata is concentrated India—an intense, vital and overcrowded city of 11 million inhabitants. It is the country’s largest city and one of the most populous in the world Here are gathered India’s finest artists and musicians, scholars and poets, and ...