KOLKATA COLLEGE STREET:
Kolkata College Street Name is well-known. Its location in central Kolkata. College Street means the biggest market in the world's Bangla book. Just what? It is the second largest book market in the world. And India's largest book market. So today even the name of the college street in the whole subcontinent is in the face of human face.
Since when this college gained fame for the street book market, its exact history is yet to be known. But Sudhanshu Shekhar Dey, the leader of the publisher of D'Se-publishing, the publisher of the Bengali book of Calcutta, said in the first light that earlier Kolkata's book market was not on this college street. Was in Chitpur area. When different educational institutions were established in college street, many businessmen from Chitpar opened the bookstation at this college street. Then gradually college Street became one of the best markets in the book of Kolkata. This college street area was established around Presidency College, which is now Presidency University (1817), Hindu School (1817), Hair School (1818), Sanskrit College (1824), Calcutta University (1857), Kolkata Medical College and Hospital (1857) . Not only that, these historic coffee houses, Dilkhusha cabin, spring cabins etc. were built around these educational institutions.
Sudhangshu Shekhar De also said that they are still at the top of the Bengali book market in Kolkata. They have five thousand titles. There are at least one publisher and book-selling organization at the college street bookpath. Not only that the book is published in Bangla but it is also published in Bangla as well as in English, Hindi, Urdu, Odisha and Assamese. Various books of schools, colleges and universities were published in this bookstore from College Street. So there is always a crowd of college enthusiasts, Ada. The historic coffee house has made College Street more famous.
This coffee house was a Kolkata-based poet, literary, journalist, writer, artist, student of Eduard College. Who did not come here? Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray, Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen, film director Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay and literary Sunil Gangopadhyay have all passed. Here's the chat. This coffee house was renowned by the noted musician Manna Dey who sang 'The House of the Coffee Today is no more' song. The song is still heard in the voice of the human voice.
But the coffee house really does not have that chat today. Much faded. There are still many people, but those days do not get crowded.
Talk to FD Islam, 40 year old Kofi House worker. He said Albert Hall was founded in 1886 at this college street. In the year 1942, the Coffee Board of India started selling coffee here first. In 1947, the Central Government of India changed the name of the coffee shop to the Coffee House. The Coffee House, which is coming through many attacks But in 1958 the coffee house closed once the authorities. Later, the University of Calcutta University and the Presidency College started claiming to open this coffee house. The coffee house was re-introduced in 2006 through co-operative societies. The new name is given in Indian Coffee House.
FD Islam said, the coffee house continues to maintain its heritage. There is no error in trying to maintain the quality of coffee. People here still come here. Drink coffee. Give a chat.
The Coffee House and the College Street have become synonymous today. Because, like the street of the college street, books, books, the coffee house lives on the College Street. So, the scholars of the country and abroad still come to Calcutta, to buy books at this college street and to drink a cup of coffee, in the coffee house.
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