West Bengal West Bengal West Bengal () is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. With over 91million inhabitants (as of 2011), it is India's fourth-most populous state. It has an area of . A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the
The Black Hole of Auschwitz Burned Up in Space? The Plague has No Frontiers The Community of Venice and its Ancient Cemetery The Philosopher-Engineer and his Forbidden Dreams Guest of Captain Nemo The Black Hole of Auschwitz The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays by the Italian author Primo Levi. Originally published under the Italian title "Asymmetry and Life" it has two distinct halves. The first half, "The Black Hole of Auschwitz" is a collection of essays, often prefaces to other books, which make a plea against holocaust denial. The second half "Other People's Trades" are a mixture of essays on a