West Bengal covers the bottleneck of the India in the east stretching from the Himalayas in the north  to the Bay of Bengal in the South. The state has two natural divisions, the Himalalyan north and the alluvial plan of south consisting of many big rivers-the chief of which are the Bhagirathi and its tributaries.

 The state has produced men and women whose ideas helped to in shape modern India. Ram Mohan Roy, Ramakrishana, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar and Vivekananda spear headed social and religious movemonts. Bankkinchandra Chatterjee,Madhusudan Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore among others ushered in an area of new literature. A movement to evolve a ture “Indian art from” found its experssions in Gagaanendranath Tagore, Abaindranath Tagore, Nanlal Bose, Jamini Roy and others. Proscenium theatre came in to he country with Satyajit Roy’s “Pather Panchaji”. It has produced great freedom fighters like Sir Suren Banerjee. C.R. Das, Netaji Subash Chandra Bose and Maulana Azad. This land also gave us four Nobel Laurates-Rabindranath Tagore, C.V.Ramman, Ronald Ross and Mother Teresa.

 The state seldom sees a dull moment Sheltered by searing Himalayan Peaks and sun-drenched beaches the land also has the luuxuriant tropical jungles and is home of the royal Bengal tiger Shantiniketan, the abode, is a full-fledged university.

Kolkata

88,752 sq kms

Bengali, Hindi, English

Best time to visit is between October to March