Crossword clues for calcutta
calcutta
- Where Thackeray was born
- Birthplace of William Thackeray and Satyajit Ray
- India's capital before New Delhi
- Indian home to Mother Teresa
- The largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world
- Located in eastern India
- Suffers from poverty and overcrowding
- Site of the Black Hole
- Horse's joint that's broken itself
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in eastern India, named for Hindu goddess Kali.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1473
Land area (2000): 11.748450 sq. miles (30.428344 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.015131 sq. miles (0.039188 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.763581 sq. miles (30.467532 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10926
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.682271 N, 80.570204 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43920
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Calcutta
Wikipedia
Kolkata, formerly called Calcutta, is the capital city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Calcutta may also refer to:
Places- Kolkata District, an administrative district in West Bengal, India
- Calcutta, Indiana, U.S.
- Calcutta, Ohio, United States
- Calcutta, West Virginia, United States
- Calcutta, Suriname
- Calcutta, Belize
- Calcutta (1947 film), a film noir starring Alan Ladd
- Calcutta (1969 film), a documentary film by Louis Malle
- Calcutta 71 (1971 film), a film by Mrinal Sen
- Calcutta trilogy, by Satyajit Ray, or by Mrinal Sen
- University of Calcutta
- Calcutta Boys' School
- Calcutta Business School
- Calcutta Girls High School
- Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management
- Calcutta International School
- Calcutta National Medical College
- Calcutta Public School
- Calcutta School of Music
- The Calcutta Technical School
- Calcutta Club
- Calcutta (band), American alternative rock band
- Calcutta (song), 1961 instrumental by Lawrence Welk
- Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi), 1998 song by Dr. Bombay (Jonny Jakobsen)
- Calcutta auction, a method of allocating gambling bets by auction
- HMS Calcutta, five ships of the Royal Navy
- The Calcutta Cup, an annual rugby match between England and Scotland
- Siege of Calcutta, battle between the armies Britain and the Nawab of Bengal in the 18th century
- Short S.8 Calcutta, flying boat
"Calcutta" is a German pop song. An instrumental version by American bandleader and TV host Lawrence Welk on the 1961 Dot Records album Calcutta! was a chart hit, the most successful of Welk's career, and the only tango-based recording to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
The tune was written in 1958 by the composer Heino Gaze. The original title was "Tivoli Melody", but it was re-titled several times, until it became known as "Calcutta". Hans Bradtke wrote the German lyrics, which made reference to the Indian city of Calcutta (Kolkata). The American songwriting team of Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss later wrote English lyrics, celebrating the charms of the "ladies of Calcutta."
Welk's recording of the tune was something of a departure for him. It incorporated his recognizable "trademarks," i.e., the harpsichord lead and an accordion but combined them with handclaps and a brisk rock rhythm.
"Calcutta" stayed atop the US pop chart for two weeks while the album, with its combination of easy listening tunes and covers of then-popular rock singles, charted at #1 for two weeks, spending three months on the chart. At the time "Calcutta" reached #1, Welk, who was 57, became the oldest artist to have a number one pop single in the U.S. (His record would be broken three years later by Louis Armstrong who at age 63 topped the singles charts with " Hello, Dolly!" in early 1964.)
Dancers Bobby Burgess and Barbara Boylan, cast members on Welk's weekly TV show, worked up a dance routine to go along with "Calcutta", which they performed numerous times on the Welk show over the years.
Calcutta is a 1969 French documentary film about Calcutta, directed by Louis Malle. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
"Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi)" is a song recorded by Swedish eurodance artist Dr. Bombay. It was released in 1998 as the lead single from his debut album Rice & Curry. The song became Jakobsen's first major hit, topping the charts at number 1 in Sweden and 2 in Norway.
Calcutta is an alternative rock band formed in 1995, in Camarillo, California. Their musical influences include U2, Rush, Jimmy Eat World, and Smashing Pumpkins. From small beginnings as a garage band, Calcutta quickly set themselves apart by garnering a loyal following in Southern California. The band's success has been noted in local media outlets like the Ventura Country Star, California State University, Fullerton's Daily Titan, UCLA's Daily Bruin, University of California, Irvine's The New University, on radio stations like 95.1 KBBY, and also on websites like www.buzzcast.com, www.purevolume.com, and www.themusicedge.com.
Usage examples of "calcutta".
Varanasi, then to Khajuraho, a stopover in Calcutta, then Agra and back to Poona later in the week.
The men from Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Aden, Peshawar and the far North saw fit to be more polite to the judge and his wife than the Moplahs might have been if left to themselves.
Calcutta was so great that it inspired Brereton to send his eight bombers on a not too effective raid of Rangoon and the Andaman Islands where the Japanese were accumulating shipping.
At Calcutta and other places they are trying to start Ayurvedic schools.
Hastings, conceiving that if the faction opposed to Baboo and Ragoba should prevail, the territories of Bombay would be in danger, proposed in council that every assistance should be given, and that an army should be forthwith sent from Calcutta and Bombay.
I mention this because it shows the folly of anyone who singles out Calcutta as a bedlam of Bengali insanity.
According to one story, which I desperately hope is exaggerated, fifteen hundred children per month were being killed in the state of Bihar, their bones then sent to Calcutta for processing and export.
They were to sail first to Calcutta, and if on reaching there the troubles in Burmah should prevent their going at once to that country, they were to remain in Calcutta, and apply themselves to the acquisition of the Burman language.
A beggar-taught may be brought from Calcutta for thirty rupees a month, and if he writes in Gurmukhi our people cannot read.
At the Radakhrishna General Hospital in Howrah in Calcutta is that excellent man, K.
The success of New Orleans as a city can be no more attributed to Louisianians than can that of the Havana to the men of Cuba, or of Calcutta to the natives of India.
French forces been joined to those under Manak Chand, the reconquest of Calcutta would not have been so easily achieved.
We have to get letters away by Tuesday from the Mofussil instead of Thursday as in Calcutta.
In the last century in India there was a revered saint, Sri Ramakrishna, who held the post of priest in a large, wealthy temple outside Calcutta.
Famine was upon the land despite gifts of American grain that rotted in warehouses of Calcutta and Bombay and Sholapur, despite even more grain that reached the people.