Girish Chandra Dey & Nakur Chandra Nandy

Nakur Chandra Nandy hailed from Janai in Hoogly district and came to Calcutta as son-in-law of renowned confectioner of Simla, Girish Chandra Dey. Since the middle of the 20th century, Nakur’s sandesh has occupied the pride of place in all-India level. Nakur’s chocolate, parijat and mousumi sandesh had their luminous presence on the wedding reception of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. West Be

ngal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee gifted one hundred pieces of kanchagolla and an equal number of parijat sandesh to the US Foreign Secretary, Hillary Clinton. Of momentous occasion was the sandhek weighing 34kg which was the cynosure to felicitate the Kolkata Knight Riders in presence of the Governor and the Chief Minister. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi have a sweet tooth for our sandesh. Nakur’s brand wallows in the glory of grest personalities of India, namely Satyajit Ray, matinee idol Uttam Kumar and former Prime Minister Rajib Gandhi. Satyajit’s daughter-in-law was a regular customer. Rajib Gandhi had a sweet tooth for golapi pera. We feel proud to have delivered sandesh on the occasion of Lakshmi Puja to Uttam Kumar’s residence at Moyra Street. Located at 56, Ramdulal Sarkar Street and surrounded by heritage sites that include Bethune College, Hedua and birth place of Swami Vivekananda, ours is a permanent address for sweets aficionado. The building that houses the outlet enjoys Heritage status. We don’t buy any product as ingredient for our sandesh. We buy them raw and the processing is done by our system in place. None of our products remain unsold at the end of a day and make way for the fresh products. Sandesh of naram-pak remains intact for one to three days, while those of kara-pak enjoy a span of a week even. The five generation business is certainly not for its own sake. Our top most priority is our customers, local and beyond. We push our quest for perfection to the limits and beyond and we render our best efforts to upgrade our standards with every passing day. As many as sixty items of sandesh are available, nevertheless, our core competence lies in talsash, jalbhara, parijat, dilkhush, monohara, blackforesh and other varities. Of three proprietors, Prasanta Nandy passed away. Pratip Nandy and Pranab Nandy are at the helm of the present management. Girish Chandra Dey & Nakur Chandra Nandy's sweet shop in north Kolkata, popularly known as "Nakur", is probably the most famous destination in Kolkata for sweet lovers. It has been selling sweets for more than hundred and seventy years and has played an active part in the evolution of "sandesh", a typical sweet made from "chhena" or fresh custard cheese. "Sandesh" has evolved with time and there are hundreds of varieties being sold from sweet shops all over Bengal. The biggest player in this industry is still "Nakur" which is located inside a narrow age-old alley in "Simla para" near Hedua park. For GPS lovers, the actual address is 56, Ramdulal Sarkar Street, Kolkata-700006. Girish Chandra Dey, who learnt the art of making sweets from his father Mahesh Chandra Dey, was the person who first made this sweet shop popular. He made innovative new sweets which did all the magic and attracted people with a "sweet tooth". He made Nakur Chandra Nandy, his son-in-law, a partner and since then the shop has been known by it's current name. Colloquially people use to call it "Nokur". Its sandeshes are going to be heavenly treat for your taste buds. People love this shop for the endless variety of signature items like 'jolbhara', 'aam sandesh', 'monopuli', 'malai roll', 'sarpuria', 'parijaat', 'kachagolla', 'monohara', etc which are surely going to make you start loving the Bengali sweets . During festivals like "Bhaifota" or "Jamai shashthhi", the queue of customers is longer than you can ever imagine. The owners are so committed to the customers that they keep the shop open till 12:00 at night on these days. It is known that Swami Vivekananda used to visit the shop regularly in his early life. Since then, the supreme quality of the sweets have been maintained by the proprietors and the sweet-makers for ages. The demand has always been rising and the shop has been able to attract famous personalities like film directors Satyajit Ray and Rituporno Ghosh, actor Shahrukh Khan, cricketer MS Dhoni, just to name a few. Even the legendary actor Amitabh Bachhan relied on this sweet shop for his son Abhishek's marriage with Aishwarya, winner of the Miss World pageant of 1994. Nakur was also given the responsibility to prepare the congratulatory "sandesh cake" for the team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to celebrate their victory in Indian Premier League 2012. It is also a heritage building as stated by Kolkata Municipal Corporation under graded list of heritage buildings.