Parnasree Pally
Parnasree Pally is an upscale residential area located in Behala, a locality in southern Kolkata, India.

Parnasree Pally is an upscale residential area located in Behala, a locality in southern Kolkata, India. It was incorporated into the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 1985. The name "Parnasree" translates to "beauty of the leaves" in English. Previously known as Halderbagan, it is believed that the Halders were associated with the Sabarna Roy Chowdhury family. The name "Parnasree" was coined by the late Asoke Ratan Mazumder when he became a member of the cooperative society established for the rehabilitation of refugees during the Partition of India in 1947.
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Worth seeing in and around Parnasree Pally
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01National Library of India
The National Library of India is a library located in the Belvedere Estate, Alipore, Kolkata, India. The National Library was moved there in 1953 into the estate where the former British Viceroys resided.
3.9 km · national library located in Kolkata · Wikipedia - 02Kalighat Kali Temple
Kalighat Kali Temple is a Hindu temple in Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali, one of the 10 Mahavidyas in the Hindu tantric tradition and the supreme deity in the Kalikula worship tradition. The temple is one of the 51 Shakti Pithas in India.
3.9 km · Hindu temple in Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Wikipedia - 03Kalighat Home for the Dying
Kalighat, the Home of the Pure Heart is a hospice for the sick, destitute and the dying established by St. Mother Teresa in Kalighat, Kolkata, India.
3.9 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 04Agri-Horticultural Society of India
The Agri-Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by William Carey on Alipore Road, Kolkata. It has a flower garden, greenhouses, a research laboratory, and a library.
3.5 km · horticultural society and flower garden in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia - 05State Archaeological Museum
State Archaeological Museum, West Bengal in Kolkata, West Bengal, is an archeological museum founded in 1962 and has collections including rare tools of the Early, Middle and the Late Stone Ages from Susunia and other sites, proto-historic antiquities from Pandu Rajar Dhibi, terracottas, sculptures, stone and stucco from the Gupta, Maurya, Shunga, Kushana, Pala and Medieval times. It is located at the vicinity of Behala Bazar Metro on Diamond Harbour Road and Nafar Chandra Das Road at Behala behind Siddeshwari Kali Temple There is also a section on ‘Historical Art’ opened in 1963 which displays large number of old terracottas, bronzes, wood-carvings, textiles and manuscripts.
1.6 km · museum in Kolkata · Wikipedia - 06Sabarna Sangrahashala
Sabarna Roy Choudhury was a Zamindar family of Mughal Bengal. They controlled significant swathes of territory, including what would later become Kolkata, prior to the sale of zamindari rights in 1698 to the East India Company.
3.2 km · museum in Kolkata, West Bengal · Wikipedia - 072018 Kolkata bridge collapse
The 2018 Kolkata bridge collapse refers to the collapse of the Majerhat Bridge, in the city of Kolkata, India, on 4 September 2018. The bridge collapsed at around 4:45 PM, resulting in the death of three people and injuries to at least 25 others.
1.9 km · Indian bridge failure · Wikipedia - 08Sister Nibedita Government General Degree College for Girls
Sister Nibedita Government General Degree College for Girls, Hastings House, is the first government girls' degree college in West Bengal to be established after independence. It is named after Sister Nivedita in the heritage campus of Hastings House, the erstwhile residence of the first Governor General of India.
3.3 km · college in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia - 09Radhakanta Temple
The Radhanath Temple in Chetla, India built between 1796 and 1807 by Babu Ramnath Mondal of the Bawali Raj family, is one of the most prominent heritage temples along the old Adi Ganga. Designed in the traditional nabaratna Bengal temple architectural style and rising nearly 100 feet, it once formed part of a flourishing riverside cultural landscape of ghats, pathways, and zamindari estates.
3.5 km · temple in Kolkata · Wikipedia
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Getting to Parnasree Pally
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 22 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 260 km
- Stations
- Behala Airport, 1 km · Majerhat railway station, 2 km · Brace Bridge railway station, 1.1 km · Santoshpur railway station, 4 km · Remount Road railway station, 2.2 km
- Bhubaneswar → Parnasree PallyTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Siliguri → Parnasree PallyTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Guwahati → Parnasree PallyTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Parnasree Pally. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe exact fare depends on the type of bus, whether it is a state bus, a minibus or a private bus.
- Get in}} Point to point auto rickshaws are a cheap and popular means of transport, in most parts of the city, except the central business district.
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Next door to Parnasree Pally
Parnasree Pally is 5 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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