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Calcutta Rabindra Setu or Howrah Bridge. Popularly known as the Howrah Bridge, Rabindra Setu is a suspension type balanced cantilever bridge that spans the Ganges Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. It is a famous icon of the state and the capital city Kolkatta. Rabindra Setu became the fourth cantilever bridge of its kind in the world, since it was commissioned in February 1943. It was renamed from Howrah bridge to Rabindra Setu in the year 1965, in honour of the country's first Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot
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