Three
gentlemen of different age groups have certain common interest. By virtue of
their profession, all three were associated with daily Kolkata life and they
have passion for this city and its colonial history. With their limited
resources two of them have started reading about Kolkata from the old
book-shelves of Kolkata libraries & web world of Internet, the youngest one
has choose his photography skill to portray his passion.
None of them
were historian but all have common wave length to hear & tell the story of
bygone era. Their common study indicates the history of Kolkata is only of just
over three hundred (?) years (much younger than Delhi or Varanashi) but the
eastern part of the country is as ancient as the age of the world.
Which started
as a historical study of the City where they live, earn & madly in love,
slowly but steadily ask them to focus much beyond that period to the
socio-economical history of different districts of undivided Bengal, Bihar,
Orissa & portion of North Eastern states around the vast land of the
eastern part of the Indian sub-continent.
Their
profession is very much distant from academic world, associated with the
monotony of a typical middle-class city dweller.
All on a
sudden it appeared to them they can share their limited resources through Blog,
share their story telling & lens-work with the world, in the process they
may be enriched with more information.
The result is Astounding Bengal.
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