What is "chowringhee"

Chowringhee (also spelt Chourangi) is a neighbourhood in central Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal. Jawaharlal Nehru Road (earlier known as Chowringhee Road) runs on its western side. A neighbourhood steeped in history, it is a business district, as well as a shopper’s destination and entertainment-hotel centre.

Chowronghee is a 1968 Indian Bengali drama film by Pinaki Bhushan Mukherjee, starring Supriya Devi and Uttam Kumar. The film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Shankar and was a huge hit in its own right.

Chowronghee is a novel by Bengali author Sankar. First published in Bengali in 1962, the novel became a bestseller and was translated into a number of Indian languages and made into a film and a play. It is considered arguably Sankar's most popular book, a classic novel in Bengali. The novel, translated into English by Arunava Sinha, won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2007 for the best translation. The novel was shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010.

Chowringhee is a neighbourhood in central Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Chowringhee may also refer to:

• Chowringhee (novel), a 1962 classic Bengali novel by Sankar
• Chowringhee (film), a 1968 film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Shankar
• 36 Chowringhee Lane, a 1981 film written and directed by Aparna Sen