Kolkatta (Calcutta) State West Bengal
This is the 2nd hand bookshop area in front of the famous Presidency college of Kolkata. This street is called College Street as there are more than five colleges and two schools just within 100 m on this street. Of these 4 colleges are among the most well known in India -Presidency college (previuosly known as Hindu College), Goenka College of Commerce, Calcutta Medical College, Sanskrit College. This street is also the hub of publishing business of Kolkata (nee Calcutta). There are over 1000 book shops right on this street. A new multistoried book market named - "Barnoporichoy" (meaning Learning alphabets in Bangla) is under construction, just within 50m of the place of the photograph. It is also one of the biggest book trade area of Asia and is there for nearly a hundred years.
The Parasnath Temple built by Rai Badridas Bahadoor Mookim. Want to know more click on link..
http://hubpages.com/hub/Parasnath-sheetalnath-jain-Glass-Temple-Kolkata-rai-badridas-mukim-tourist-place
Street scenes
