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Introduction :
West Bengal is India's 12th largest state. West Bengal is the
gateway to the beautiful north eastern states of India where the visitor can
only gaze in wonder at the pristine beauty. Its capital was once the capital of
the British empire, that is Calcutta remains the cultural capital of India with
a strong tradition in litrature and fine arts. West Bengal's beautiful buildings
haven't been eclipsed by high reises. The total area of West Bengal is 88,853 sq
kms. West Bengal covers the bottleneck of India in the east, stretching from the
Himalayas in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south. Countries that share
international boundaries with West Bengal include Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal
while Sikkim, Assam, Orissa and Bihar frame its domestic borders.
West
Bengal is India's 12th largest state. The state stretches from the foothills of
Himalayas in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
once said What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow." And Bengal, can be
perhaps be justifiably proud of producing men and women whose ideas helped to
shape modern India. Ram Mohan Roy, lswarchandra Vidyasagar, Ramkrishna and
Vivekanand, spearheaded social and religious movements, Bankimchandra Chatterjee,
Madhusudan Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore among others ushered in an era of new
literature. A movement to evolve a true ' Indian art form' found its expression
in Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Nandlal Bose, Jamini Roy and
others. Proscenium theatre came into the country with Satyajit Ray's Pather
Panchali and the new wave in Indian Cinema began. In this land India's freedom
movement found some of the great sons like Sir Suren Banerjee, C. R. Das, Netaji
Bose, Maulana Azad, as it drew inspiration from Rishi Aurobindo. Bengal is a
proud land of five Nobel Laureates (Tagore, Raman, Ronald Ross, Mother Teresa,
Amartya Sen).
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