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TopicRabindranath Tagore

Topic: Rabindranath Tagore

Several plaques on Santiniketan campus don’t have Tagore’s name, says Visva Bharati University

The statement came amid controversy over three recent plaques installed that did not bear the name of the Nobel laureate, who had founded the institute over a century ago.

Santiniketan gets a Unesco tag when its heritage is actually in decline

Will the increased attention on Santiniketan and rise in tourism push Rabindranath Tagore's cultural hub further into the arms of urbanisation?

Don’t forget Savarkar used ‘Hindustan’. ‘Bharat’ became popular with Tagore, calendars, mandirs

How did 'Hindustan' become 'India'? It's not as simple as Mughals vs British.

Santiniketan isn’t an abode of peace anymore. A rot has set in

Santiniketan literally means the abode of peace. It is where Rabindranath Tagore lived and founded a central university. Now, Santiniketan has been added to the list of...

‘Fitting tribute’, says EAM Jaishankar as Santiniketan gets UNESCO World Heritage Site tag

Established in 1901 by Rabindranath Tagore, Santiniketan was a residential school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions and a vision of the unity of humanity.

Rabindranath Tagore is polarising in new Bangladesh—for his Hinduness, Sanskritised Bangla

Tagore’s song, Amar Shonar Bangla, became the raison d'etre of newly independent Bangladesh. But does today’s Bangladesh embrace the poet?

‘Abandon Santiniketan, stop being Gurudeva, devote yourself to painting’—Jamini Roy to Tagore

In 'Jamini Roy', Anuradha Ghosh explores the intimate relationship that the Bengali painter shared with Rabindranath Tagore.

Tagore had the answer to rural poverty, education. The blueprint’s still in Santiniketan

To introduce Tagore's ideas on these issues, one needs to translate his works into other Indian languages. But very little progress has been made in 80 years.

When Rabindranath Tagore sent 3 men to study agriculture in US so they can build Sriniketan

In ‘History of Sriniketan’, Uma Das Gupta writes about Tagore’s rural reconstruction project, where scientists, economists, sociologists and technicians came together with villagers to build Sriniketan.

Bengali poet Jibanananda Das took over Tagore’s legacy by not trying ‘too hard’

Despite receiving criticism for the lack of nationalism and non-Marxist elements in his work, Jibanananda Das stood out among Bengali poets.

On Camera

Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.