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📍Surya Sen Street, Kolkata ,West Bengal Unlike most of Kolkata’s iconic streets and roads, Surya Sen Street is best known for the institutions that have their addresses here and not the other way around. Being a part of the larger neighbourhood of Baithakkhana makes it one of the oldest streets to have developed in the city of Calcutta, but its rapidly changing face makes it easy to overlook that. This approximately 950-meter road starts at the crossing of Calcutta University and the Medical College and Hospital, and runs all the way down to Jagat Talkies cinema hall, ending where the neighbourhood of Sealdah begins. In his telling of the story of the origins of Baithakkhana, H.E.A Cotton, who documented the city of Calcutta and its history during the 19th century in his book ‘Calcutta: Old and New’, writes that sometime in 1690, when the British first occupied the village of Sutanuti, Job Charnock of the East India Company was so inspired by the environs, that he went on to make the area a permanent settlement for the Company. He refers to a well-known tale of how Charnock conceived the idea of “Calcutta” when the village was only partially occupied by foriegn merchants. #mycountry #pindle #pindleindia #pindlekorea #pindlegems #pindleturkey #pindleindonesia #pindletoppost #nature #explore #mycountry2 #guidebook #pindleguidebook #geotag #Guide #localguide #natgeo #gems #clickwithavinaba #hiddengems #ShareWithPindle