This is a tour of those places where Bengali Authors of yesteryears created their timeless work on Bengali literature.

We will start with Pataldanga which was the area which served as the backdrop of Narayan Gangopadhyay’s immortal character Tenida.

Walking down the Mahatma Gandhi Road we will come across that famous Boarding house where Novelist Saradindu Bandopadhyay and Poet Jibananda Das used to stay. Saradindu is said to have come up with the concept of Ajit’s Mess staying at this place only. Even Dibakar Banerjee adopted Ajit’s Mess in his film based on this house.

We walk till College Street crossing, get on a tram and then get down near Bina Cinema Hall. Here, inside a narrow bylane of Mahatma Gandhi Road is the place where Sibram Chakarborty used to stay. The room where Sibram stayed still exists, with a phone number on the wall written by Sibram himself.

Then we walk down the College street and pass by following locations :-

1. Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

2. Location of Bharat Sangeet Samaj (1900) – writer of ‘Bangsha Parichay’ – Gyanendra Nath Kumar published three magazines from this house Prajapati, Majlish and Srirampur

3. House where Upendar kishore stayed for 10 years after his marriage. Sukumar Roy was born in this house. Presently the house does not exists. Instead there is a shopping mall

4. House of popular children’s writer Kulada Ranjan Roychowdhury’s house

5. Upendrakishore Roychowdhury’s second house in the locality

6. Location of Bangadarshan Magazine’s office. Bankim Chandra wrote Aananda Math in this magazine

7. House of Poet Dwijendralal Roy

8. Swami Vivekananda’s House and Vivekananda Museuem on Bidhan Sarani

Inclusions: Breakfast,Tea,Guide Charges

Explorer: Amitabha Gupta

Amitabha Gupta is an eminent blogger from Kolkata who writes about History, Architecture & different Temples and Sights. He has written articles for Nat Geo Outlook before and regularly writes for many travel based magazines.