A day-long trip around Kolkata

I have been in Kolkata for almost 3 months now and yet I've not seen much of the "Old Calcutta". The first things that come to mind when I hear 'Calcutta' are Mother Thereasa, the British buildings, Rabindranath Tagore, etc.
But My friends here and I have not yet been to any of these great personalities' locations of activity and our views were thus confined only to the Salt Lake area and some parts of "New Calcutta".
However, Last week, a friend and professor at Amrita University,Amitapuri Campus Mr.Probal Ray Choudhury was in his hometown(ThakurPukur in Kolkata) for the Onam vacation. He offered to take us for a ride across Kolkata. We jumped at the offer.

So, it happend that we visited Belur Math.
Belur Math is the headquarters of Ramkrishna Mission and houses the things used by Swami Vivekananda, Sri Ramkrishna and the like.
It contains an exquisite museum which tells us the Birth of the Organization and the Travels of Swami Vivekananda to the West, his life there and a variety of other things.
It is a beautiful place that any person who is visiting Kolkata should see.
We were able to admire the beauty of the River Ganges. Across Ganges, we could see another temple and a boat service from Belur Math to that temple is available too.

Later in the day, we took a long drive to a place called RaiChak. Raichak has nothing special except that you can admire the beauty of River Ganges to the core. From here, You can see the Bay of Bengal in a distance.
From Raichak, we went to Diamond Harbour. Here, You can feel the calm sea breeze on your face.
It is a good place to read a book provided there is not much traffic on the adjoining road.
For dinner, we went to Mr.Probal's house. His mother had cooked some excellent Bengali Food and I had the best food that I've had in 4 months.

Now, that was a sunday spent well.