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West Bengal
Bishnupur, in West Bengal's Bankura district, is known for its exquisite terracotta temples built by the Malla kings in the 17th and 18th centuries.
No piers stand in the Teesta here — the depth and the current of the river ruled them out — so the whole reinforced-concrete span hangs from one fixed arch…
Darjeeling sits at about 2,042 metres on a steep mountain ridge of the Lesser Himalayas in northern West Bengal, under the snow mass of Mount Kanchenjunga…
Fort William is a large star-shaped fort on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River in the Hastings area of Kolkata, spanning roughly 70 hectares with a dry…
What stands at Gauda now is the residue of a capital city. Most of the surviving structures date from the Bengal Sultanate, which ruled from here for 112…
Walk across it towards the Howrah rail terminal and you are on the busiest cantilever bridge in the world: something over 150,000 people on foot a day, plus…
Thirty-five galleries in six sections is more than a single visit absorbs, so choose before you go in.
A copper plate turned up here by chance in March 1987 and produced a Pala emperor, Mahendrapala, whom no other source had recorded.
Kalimpong sits at 1,250 metres — some eight hundred metres lower than Darjeeling and a couple of hours further on — and is warmer and quieter for both reasons.
Kolkata comes down to this stretch of the Hooghly in the evenings, mostly at weekends, to take a boat out, walk the bank and eat at the stalls — which is the…
Do not plan on getting to the top. The stated intention is to light the tower in the evenings and let visitors climb it, but the last people known to have…
