• Kolkota, India is called the City of Palaces because of its abundance of European-style buildings?

Facts on topics related to City of Palaces

Kolkata

• Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?
• human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur, now home to Kolkata’s latest railway passenger terminal?
• Job Charnock landed at Jorabagan, Sutanuti ghat in 1690, which is believed by many to be the starting point of the metropolitan growth of Kolkata?
• Adwaita, the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company?
• Bidhannagar College, a government college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, had to move out of its old premises because of student overpopulation?
• Burrabazar, in Kolkata, expanded from a yarn and textile market into a large wholesale market?
• the Charnockite in St. Thomas Mount, Chennai got its name from Job Charnock, the founder of Kolkata, whose tomb was made of rocks quarried from St. Thomas Mount?
• Entally was home to the poor and the depressed, and a neighbourhood where Mother Teresa started her active life in Kolkata, India?
• Ganendranath Tagore established the Jorasanko Natyasala, a private theatre in his own household, in Kolkata in 1865?
• Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges?

Chennai

• footballer Bud Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who migrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule?
• Niels Bohr inspired Indian physicist Alladi Ramakrishnan to create the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai?
• A. P. Patro inaugurated the Loyola College in Chennai, India, in 1925?
• the Charnockite in St. Thomas Mount, Chennai got its name from Job Charnock, the founder of Kolkata, whose tomb was made of rocks quarried from St. Thomas Mount?
• a fire in Saravana Stores, Chennai, in 2008 burnt out most of the building and killed two people?
• the Chennai Book Fair is an annual event in Chennai, India, which takes place between the last week of December and the third week of January?
• the Church of Our Lady of Light in Chennai, India was built in 1516 by Portuguese missionaries?
• the Higginbotham's, based in Chennai, is India's oldest bookstore in existence?