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Sarat Chandra Kuthi

Sarat Chandra Kuthi (pronounced [??rot t??ndro ku??i]), also known as Sarat Smriti Mandir (pronounced [??rot sriti mondir]), is a house museum located in the village of Samta, in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India, on the banks of the Rupnarayan river. It is noted for being the house of Bengali novelist, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay for twelve years. The house was constructed in the year 1923 by a local worker named Gopal Das and it cost a sum of ?17,000. During the 1978 West Bengal floods, the structure had suffered damage, following which the government undertook its repair.