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The 18th-century building was in a dilapidated condition, worsening day by day. The Ramakrishna Mission acquired it, along with an adjacent plot, in May 1999. Ramakrishna Mission restored Vivekananda's ancestral house without changing any of its original architectural features. It houses Vivekananda's birthplace, meditation hall (first floor) and museum, where some of the articles used by Vivekananda, his father, mother and brothers are preserved.
Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre is a museum and cultural centre. It is located at 105 Vivekananda Road, Kolkata, India. In this house, Swami Vivekananda was born on 12 January 1863. The house remained Vivekananda's home throughout his childhood and early youth. The cultural centre was inaugurated by the President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
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One of the largest Durga Puja celebrations in the city, which began in 1943 by Lakhi Chand Jaiswal as a small celebration in a shop. It has been attended by celebrities, industrialists, politicians, and even foreign diplomats. The common theme is usually environmentalism, and a windmill and solar panels power the pandal.
ভোলানাথ ধাম Bhōlānāth Dhām
A mansion with a large courtyard, known for the "fanush" (ফানুস phānus) festival celebrated in the afternoon of Diwali, where paper-made sky lanterns called phānus are flown. These sky lanterns work like hot-air balloons, where the air inside is heated with a cloth rag ball (লুটি luṭi) soaked in spirit, which is attached to the base of the lantern. The venue of the phānus festival was purchased in 1925 by Raghunath Dutt and is named after his father, Bholanath Dutt. The first phānus festival was also observed there in 1925, and various theme-based sky lanterns are now flown from the mansion.
The memorabilia in the museum consists of photographs, sketches, paintings and excerpts from the writings of Ram Mohan Roy and others reproduced, wherever possible, in facsimile. Also, period furniture and diorama representations were designed to recreate the times. Together they not only give you glimpses of the various facets of one of the greatest personalities of the modern age, but at the same time takes you back into a period in history when India was at crossroads, and Ram Mohan Roy heralded the coming of the modern age.
The residence of the scientist world-renowned for Bose-Einstein statistics.