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Showing posts with label Howrah Bridge. Show all posts
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Thursday, 17 April 2014

The City of Joy: Images of Howrah Bridge

This is the photograph clicked exclusively for this blog this evening, the Sun was setting and the light had faded away a great deal. This picture shows almost the whole of Rabindra-Setu (howrah Bridge). On has to use a wide angle camera to capture the picture of the whole bridge and the photograph has to be taken from a point which is little farther. It is located on the world famous river Ganges, at this point the river is known as Hoogli . The Bridge is double cantilever structure as such has no pillars. The depth of Hoogli  around this point is so much that it is practically impossible to erect pillars. 




Calcutta -The City of Joy: Howrah Bridge

Historical Bridge - renamed Rabrindra Setu in June, 1965. The new name 'Rabindra-Setu' is after the great Bengali poet Sri Rabidranath Tagore. It was built during British Raj and also commissioned in the Year 1943 during the British Raaj. Rabindra Setu has been the Identity of Calcutta, which is known as Kolkata now. It connects Kolkata to Howrah, in the photograph you can see the Entry point to the bridge from Kolkata.