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The former home of the Indian freedom activist and the first Education Minister of India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. Maulana Azad's work interpreting the mystic Sarmad, a member of Prince Dara Shikoh's court, is also a cornerstone of the secular tradition in India. The museum is replete with narrations of his life, times, work, personal archives, and belongings.
The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies is an autonomous research institute based in Kolkata. It is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India. It was founded on 4 January 1993. The foundation stone of the institute was laid where the new building now stands on 12 March 1993. It is devoted to the study of the life and works of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the eminent nationalist leader and India's first education minister, after whom it is named, and to the furtherance of Area Studies, with special reference to South Asia, Central Asia and West Asia, especially dealing with social, cultural, economic, political and administrative developments in Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. M.Phil.- and Ph.D.-level students of the University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi are also associated with it.
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A small museum showing modern artworks. It has nearly 200 exhibitions, along with an annual pre-Druga Puja lifestyle exhibition.
Entry is by invitation or prior appointment only. A collection of ancient and modern board games, ranging from the oldest board game, The Royal Game of Ur, to current games such as Settlers of Catan and Grizzled.
Inaugurated in 1959 as the first popular science museum in Asia. It is a modern museum with lots of interesting artefacts, shows, events, and activities, primarily popular with school-going children. Its collection of old gramophones, sound recorders, telephones, steam engines, road rollers, and other industrial machinery of the period 1880–1950 is very significant. It also actively organises summer camps, awareness programmes, and astronomy observations for schoolchildren. The exhibitions, many of them demanding you to take an active part, can compete with those you could visit in countries like the United States.
Founded in 1792, it is the second-oldest cricket club in the world after Marylebone Cricket Club. It arguably has the most picturesque cricket ground in Kolkata.
নেতাজি ভবন Netāji Bhobon
A heritage building maintained as a memorial and research centre to the life of the Indian nationalist Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Netaji's bedroom was on the first floor, shared with his father. Netaji's footsteps from the bedroom to the outside as part of the Great Escape of 1941 are also painted here, where he escaped from house arrest to gather foreign support for the Indian independence movement. The museum also showcases the car that Netaji's nephew drove him all the way to Gomoh, along with a collection of rare photographs, letters, and Netaji's clothes. There's a small bookshop with different publications by the Netaji Bureau, along with the recordings of Netaji's speeches.