North Kolkata
Jorasanko
Where Rabindranath Tagore was born.
- Known for
- The Tagore house, and the Bengal Renaissance
- Best hour
- Weekday mornings, before the school groups
- Walk
- 34 min, 5 stops
A mansion in a north Kolkata lane that produced a Nobel laureate, two national anthems, a school of painting and most of modern Bengali culture.
Photographs
Photographs of the quarter. Open one to see it full size.
Must-see buildings
Jorasanko Thakurbari
The house itself. Museum and university, open daily except Monday.
Maharshi Bhavan
Debendranath Tagore's wing, and the room Rabindranath died in.
Bichitra Bhavan
The gallery wing, with the Bengal School canvases.
- Nakhoda Masjid →
Fifteen minutes' walk south down Rabindra Sarani.
Where to eat
Girish Chandra Dey & Nakur Chandra Nandy
Ramdulal Sarkar Street
Since 1844. The jolbhora sandesh with gur inside.
Tewari Brothers
Chittaranjan Avenue
Kochuri and cholar dal, from six in the morning.
Chittaranjan Mistanna Bhandar
Shyampukur
Mishti doi in a clay pot.
Things to see
- 01
The room where he was born and died
Preserved. The same room, eighty years apart.
- 02
The manuscript doodles
Crossings-out turned into faces and animals. He began painting from these at sixty-three.
- 03
The Bengal School gallery
Abanindranath, Nandalal Bose, Gaganendranath's cubist experiments.
- 04
Rabindra Jayanti, 25 Boishakh
The courtyard fills and the songs are sung where they were written.
Stories
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