Sarat Bose Road, previously known as Lansdowne Road, is a 3.5 km long stretch of road that connects Southern Avenue (near

Rabindra Sarobar Stadium The Rabindra Sarobar Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Lake Gardens, Kolkata, India. It is used for football matches and it serves as the home of many Calcutta Football League matches. History The venue opened in 1961. It also was the home gro ...

) with

AJC Bose Road Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road (earlier known as Lower Circular Road) and its continuation northwards called Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road (earlier known as Upper Circular Road), are together the longest and the most important north-south ...

(at Minto Park) and separates two major localities of

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and

Bhawanipore Bhowanipore (also Bhowanipur; bn, ভবানীপুর) is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in Kolkata district of West Bengal, India. History In 1717, the East India Company obtained the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their s ...

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, India. South of Southern Avenue crossing, Sarat Bose Road becomes Deboki Kumar Bose Sarani.Google maps

Localities

Sarat Bose Road runs north to south almost parallel to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road and

Gariahat Road Gariahat Road connects Ballygunge Phari with Prince Anwar Shah Road and Raja SC Mullick Road near Jadavpur Police station in the southern part of Kolkata, India. The space under Gariahat Flyover hosts one of the most prominent open air public c ...

. It starts from the

(Lake Stadium) on the south and moves almost vertically up intersecting other major thoroughfares like Lake Road,

Rash Behari Avenue Rashbehari Avenue (earlier known as Main Sewer Road or Ballygunge Avenue) is one of the most prestigious and important east–west avenues of Kolkata, India. A major portion of this road is often commonly referred to as Gariahat, the prime sho ...

, and Hazra Road just up a few blocks from

Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) is a medical institution and hospital on Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata, which functions under the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. It started in July 1932 as ''Shishumangal Pratishthan'', ...

, proceeds up north with the famous Lansdowne Market and Padmapukur Square on the left, intersects Chakraberia Road and finally winds it way through Elgin Road, Diocesan High School and ends after meeting

at Minto Park. It also intersects the smaller arterial roads of Raja Basanta Roy Road, Dr. Sarat Banerjee Road, Manoharpukur Road, Beltala Road, Padmapukur Road, Mahendra Road and Rowland Road. The entire stretch of Sarat Bose Road is a mix of commercial and shopping zones as well as residential zones.

Landmarks

* Lansdowne Towers * Ishwar Gopal Jew Trust Building * Central Plaza * Amar Deep Building * Lansdowne Court * Vasundhara Building * Lansdowne Manor * Basudhara * Hindustan Club * Ideal Plaza * Great Eastern Technocity * Diocesan High School * Rameswara Building * Hotel Pan Asia Continental * Laxmi Narayan Temple * The Samilton Hotel * Padmapukur Swimming club * Automobile Association of Eastern India * Lansdowne Market * PS Residency * South Calcutta Girls College *

* Deshapriya Park *

Hartley's High School Hartley's is a brand of marmalades, jams and Gelatin dessert, jellies, originally from the United Kingdom, which is manufactured at Histon, Cambridgeshire. The brand was formerly owned by Premier Foods, until it was sold along with the factory in ...

* National High School *

(Lake Stadium)

Restaurants and fast foods

* The Great Booze Story * OZI * The French Loaf * The Sheriff * Piccadilly Square * Tangra Kaizen * The Basement lounge * Spice Garden * Pepper Chino *

Cafe Coffee Day A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, notably espresso, latte, and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-caf ...

* Khwab
Tamarind
* Kurry Klub * Marco Polo *

Barista A barista (; ; from the Italian/Spanish for "bartender") is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks. Etymology and inflection The word ''barista'' comes from Italian where it means a male ...

* The Wall * Xrong Place * Mandarin: 2466 2276 * Aoi * Zeeshan * Jai Hind Dhaba * The Dugout * The Pirate's Deck * The Little Donkey * The Corner Courtyard * The Tea Trove * Ice-o-metry * Nu Variety * Nepal Sweets * Annapurna * Flavours

References

External links

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