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THE OBEROI GRAND at 15 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU ROAD in Calcutta, India. Centrally located in the commercial heart of the city. The hotel is in walking distance from most corporate and government offices. The historic hotel is an oasis in the bustling city of Kolkata (Calcutta). Newly renovated rooms featuring State Of The Art Technology for todays business traveller. Keeping the old world charm of the hotel intact - the citys most famous restaurants, the Baan Thai for authentic thai cuisine, Gharana for cuisine from the princely states of India la Terrase, newly renovated coffee shop with lavish buffet spreads for meals. One of the four great urban centres of India, CALCUTTA is to its proud citizens the equal of any city in the country in charm, variety and interest. Like Mumbai and Chennai, it is not an ancient city; its roots lie in the European expansion of the seventeenth century. The showpiece capital of the British Raj, this was the greatest colonial city of the Orient. Descendants of the fortune-seekers who flocked from across the globe to participate in Calcutta's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century trading boom remain conspicuous in its cosmopolitan blend of communities. Despite this, there has been a recent rise in Bengali nationalism, which has resulted in the renaming of the city as KOLKATA - the Bengali pronunciation and official new name - which has yet to be universally embraced. Calcutta (Kolkata) The City, History, Arrival, City Transport, The Bengali Renaissance, Eating And Drinking, Culture And Entertainment, Best Of, Information, Satyajit Ray, The Festivals Of Calcutta, Mother Teresa, What's In A Name?, City Tours, Pollution And Floods, Shopping, Moving On From Calcutta, Sports, Listings, Explore Calcutta and Hotels in Calcutta (Kolkata). Since Indian Independence mass migrations of dispossessed refugees, occasioned by twentieth-century upheavals within the subcontinent, have tested the city's infrastructure to the limit. The resultant suffering - and the work of Mother Teresa in drawing attention to its most pathetic victims - has given Calcutta a reputation for poverty that its residents consider ill-founded. They argue that the city's problems are no longer as acute as those of Mumbai or other cities across the world, and that the slum scenes familiar from the book and film City of Joy are distortions of the truth. In fact, though Calcutta's mighty Victorian buildings lie peeling and decaying, and its avenues have long been choked by its inability to expand any further, Calcutta exudes a warmth that leaves few visitors unmoved. The opening of India's first underground system in 1984 was seen as the first portent of a new economic beginning, but there is little denying that, over the years, the city has lost much ground to newly emerging commercial centres elsewhere in the country. | QUALITY INN CALCUTTA - Rates and availability | TAJ BENGAL - Rates and availability | THE OBEROI GRAND - Rates and availability |
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