মন্দিরের মানচিত্র: Reading Calcutta through Its Forgotten Shrines
Date: 1 August 2025
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Venue: KCC Library
Join us this August for a special Library Talk featuring Kinjal Bose — government employee by profession and autodidact researcher by passion — as he presents মন্দিরের মানচিত্র: Reading Calcutta through Its Forgotten Shrines. Through evocative visuals and deep typological insight, this talk will uncover the hidden world of Calcutta’s lesser-known temples.
Bose’s talk will focus on the architectural forms — Bangla, Chala, Ratna, Dalan, Rasmancha, Tulsimancha — and how these sacred structures remain tucked away in forgotten corners of the city. Drawing from years of personal research and photography, this session invites heritage lovers to discover a Calcutta where urban life and devotional architecture co-exist in silent dialogue.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kinjal Bose is a government employee and lifelong member of INTACH (Kolkata Chapter). A self-taught scholar of Bengal’s sacred architecture, he has spent years documenting and analysing vanishing temple forms across Calcutta and West Bengal. His work brings together photographic documentation, typological research, and a passion for heritage storytelling that bridges formal and informal knowledge systems.
