Ballygunge

View of Ballygunge Circular Road

Ballygunge (Bengali: বালিগঞ্জ) is a locality in South Kolkata, India. It is flanked by Park Circus in the north, Kasba and the Eastern Railway south suburban line in the east, Dhakuria and the Lakes (now called Rabindra Sarobar) in the south, and the localities of Bhowanipore and Lansdowne in the west. The postal code of Ballygunge area is Kolkata 700 019.

Educational institutions

Ballygunge is home to some of the following educational institutions in Kolkata:

1. Army Public School, Kolkata, Ballygunge Maidan Camp
2. Ballygunge Government High School, Beltala
3. Basanti Devi College, 147B Rash Behari Avenue, Kolkata
4. Jagadbandhu Institution, 25, Fern Road, Kolkata.
5. Kamala Girls' High School, Lake Road (Kavi Bharati Sarani)
6. Modern High School for Girls, Syed Amir Ali Avenue
7. Patha Bhavan, Swinhoe Street, Ekdalia Road, Palm Avenue, Ballygunge Place and Merlin Park
8. South Point School, Mandeville Gardens
9. St. Lawrence High School, Ballygunge Circular Road

People from Ballygunge

• Jyoti Basu, politician
• Buddhadeva Bose, writer
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, politician
• Debabrata Biswas, Rabindra Sangeet singer
• Sachin Dev Burman, singer
• Yash Mehta, Economist and Mathematician
• Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, novelist
• Aroup Chatterjee, (born 1958) – British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
• Somnath Chatterjee, politician
• Jibanananda Das, poet
• Barun De, historian
• Swarnakumari Devi, poet, musician, and social worker
• Aroti Dutt, social worker
• Gurusaday Dutt, civil servant
• Ghanshyam Das Birla, industrialist
• Sunil Gangopadhyay, writer
• Anup Ghoshal, singer
• Buddhadeb Guha, novelist and poet
• Indrajit Gupta, politician
• Satyendra Chandra Mitra, politician
• Suchitra Mitra, singer
• Hemanta Mukherjee, singer
• Mani Shankar Mukherjee, writer
• Pranab Mukherjee, politician
• Subrata Mukherjee, former Mayor of Kolkata
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay, physician
• Prof. Meghnad Saha, physicist
• Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta, Bengali novelist and legal scholar
• P. C. Sorcar, Jr., magician
• Suchitra Sen, famous Bengali film actress lived on Ballygunge Circular Road.
• Ruma Guha Thakurta, singer
• Satyajit Ray, film-maker
• Satyendranath Tagore, civil servant

Places of attraction

• 6 Ballygunge Place

See also

• Ballygunge (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ballygunge.

External links

Kolkata/South travel guide from Wikivoyage

Coordinates: 22°32′N 88°22′E / 22.533°N 88.367°E / 22.533; 88.367