Glimpses of Bengal by Sir Rabindranath Tagore

Glimpses of Bengal is a well defined book about the village scenes in Bengal written by Sir Ravindranath Tagore. In this book Sir Ravindranath had written his thought and view about Bengal.
Bengal as known is having a large part of India’s population and also ranks in the poor states of India. Capital of Bengal is Kolkata which was earlier called “Calcutta”. The historical name of Kolkata is Kalikatta which was kept on the mean of Goddess Kali. Kolkata is situated on the bank of river Hugli which is a branch of the Ganges. Hugli is the main river which irrigates the land of Bengal and fulfils the need of water of tropical living there. Kolkata being the capital of Bengal is also the cultural capital of India and the commercial capital of Eastern India. During the British rule, Kolkata was the capital for a long time before it was shifted to Delhi. It is a metropolitan area including suburbs and has a population exceeding fifteen million making it the third most populous metropolitan city in India and one of the most populous urban areas in the world. It is also classified as the eighth largest urban agglomeration in the world.
It has famous monuments and places like Victoria Palace, national Library, Eden Gardens, Kali Mandir, etc. Kolkata is having a revolutionary history from struggle of Independence to trade union movement. Kolkata is also a launch pad of Bengal as it boasts of Eastern India’s only IT hub. It is one of the fastest growing in leaps and bounds transforming itself in hotbeds of India IT sector and growing rapidly in software sector. Durgapur, Asansole, Titanagar, Bardaman, Howrah are some other big cities of Bengal, which are highly industrial and agricultural. Rice and fish is the main food of the people of Bengal, because fishing and cultivation of rice is done in abundance there. Bengali is the regional language and people mostly worship Goddess Kali and Durga Puja is the main festival.
Beside all this qualities and merits. Bengal is very poor and literacy rate is very low. Most of the villages are still backward and lack facilities regarding proper water supply, electricity, education etc. every year flood causes lots of destruction.
Government is trying much to improve the condition of Bengal but it is still not satisfactory.