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Kolkata is famous for its culture - film, poetry, music,
art and dance all have their devotees here. Programmes
are listed in the daily newspapers or in the leaflet
Kolkata This Fortnight, available free from the tourist
offices.
A dance-drama performance, Bengali poetry reading or
a similar event takes place on most nights at the Rabindra
Sadan on Cathedral Rd. Foreign films and retrospectives
are shown at the Nandan complex nearby, and many of
the cinemas in Chowringhee show recent release US movies.
There are often drama performances in English at the
Kala Mandir, 48 Shakespeare Sarani, and musical programmes
at the Sisir Mancha, 1/1 AJC Bose Rd.
Bars
& Discos |
In the Sudder St area, the Sun
Set Bar at the Lytton Hotel is a good place for
a drink. This bar is popular with travellers,
young expatriate workers and local young people
involved on the fringes of the tourist trade.
It's a friendly place and they have a good music
system. Similar is the open-air bar in the forecount
of the Fairlawn Hotel where there's always an
interesting crowd.
There are plenty of other, much more basic,
bars, some with bizarre names like Off cum On
Rambo Bar on Mirza Ghalib St, and Olypub, a pretty
seedy restaurant and bar on Park St near the Moulin
Rouge.
Quite a few of the larger hotels have discos
which go on until early morning. The best of them
is probably the Pink Elephant, at the Oberoi Grand
Hotel, where you can get down Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday night and Sunday afternoon.
Thursday is a dry's day in Kolkata and the only
places where you can get alcoholic drinks are
in the four and five-star hotels, although some
places seem to disregard this ruling. Several
of the licensed restaurants are closed on Thursday.
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