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Picture perfect: See more posters from Zubaan’s feminist archive

This poster bears no words, just a heartfelt wish. It shows a woman reclining in a sari, her feet up on a stool, a book in her hands and a cathode-ray TV on its stand in front of her. A cup of tea sits at her side, and she wears a carefree smile. (Courtesy Poster Women)

Updated 107 days ago

Shadows on the bedroom wall: At home with Satyajit Ray

Ray with Ravi Shankar at a recording session for the music of his debut film, Pather Panchali (1955). (Wikimedia)

Updated 199 days ago

Handwritten letters by Rabindranath Tagore to be auctioned

Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. (File Photo)

Published 405 days ago

Santiniketan's Asrama area to be reopened to public soon: Official

Santiniketan's Asrama area to be reopened to public soon: Official

Published 499 days ago

New Visva Bharati vice chancellor opens campus to tourists after 5 years

Currently, tourists can visit only the Visva Bharati museum by paying a fee. (Photo: Visva Bharati website)

Updated 500 days ago

West Bengal minister denies ban on Holi at Santiniketan: ‘Just made a request’

Youth at Santiniketan apply colours to each other, amid reports of a ban on the festivities in the region

Published 508 days ago

Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2024: 10 powerful quotes by the Nobel laureate

According to the Bengali calendar, Rabindra Jayanti will be observed on May 8 this year.

Published 818 days ago

Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2024: Will it be celebrated on May 7 or May 9?

Rabindranath Tagore's birth anniversary, lovingly referred to as Rabindra Jayanti, is celebrated in the homes of Bengalis with poetry, songs and drama

Published 818 days ago

Visva-Bharati’s eviction order against economist Amartya Sen illegal: Bengal court

Economist and Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen. (File photo)

Published 915 days ago

Santiniketan’s annual fair started by Tagore’s father to resume after 3 years

The Poush Mela, which draws thousands of people and even foreign tourists, has been an integral part of the Santiniketan township and Visva-Bharati. (File)

Published 975 days ago

Review: Rituparno Ghosh On/And Film edited by Somdatta Mandal and Koushik Mondal

Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh won around 12 national and some international awards for his critical and commercially successful films like Unishe April, Dahan, Asukh, Chokher Bali, Raincoat, Bariwali, Antarmahal, Noukadubi, Abohoman, Chitrangada and The Last Lear. (Prateek Choudhary/Hindustan Times)

Updated 985 days ago

Santiniketan residents hold protest at Visva-Bharati, seek removal of plaques

State minister Chandranath Sinha (green kurta) took part in the agitation where protesters held photographs of Rabindranath Tagore (HT Photo/Sourced)

Published 1011 days ago

Santiniketan’s UNESCO tag plaques to be replaced after row over Tagore exclusion

Viswa Bharati got UNESCO's World Heritage tag in September. (ANI)

Published 1015 days ago

Row over Tagore’s name missing on Santiniketan’s Unesco tag plaques

The plaques have named PM Narendra Modi, who is chancellor of West Bengal’s only central university, and V-C Bidyut Chakrabarty (HT)

Updated 1016 days ago

Myanmar national studying at Visva-Bharati goes missing; abduction alleged

Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal (File Photo)

Updated 1046 days ago

World heritage tag to Hoysala temples: Here's what CM Siddaramaiah said…

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said it is a matter of happiness and pride that the Sacred Ensembles of Hoysalas have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Published 1048 days ago

Santiniketan in Bengal now part of Unesco’s World Heritage List

The famed Santiniketan town in West Bengal where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (File photo)

Updated 1051 days ago

Santiniketan on UNESCO list: BJP lauds PM Modi, TMC credits Mamata Banerjee

Prime Minister Modi and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

Published 1051 days ago

Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan to be on UNESCO's World Heritage List

Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.

Updated 1051 days ago

Shutter island:See how one studio is reviving the alchemy of photos without film

Vivek Muthuramalingam attended workshops at Studio Goppo and has since co-founded his own alternative-photography studio, Kanike, in Bengaluru.

Updated 1108 days ago

Santiniketan proposed for inclusion in Unesco heritage list, says govt

Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.

Updated 1181 days ago

Intellectuals stage sit-in against Visva-Bharati’s eviction order to Amartya Sen

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen (File Photo)

Updated 1184 days ago

Row over Sen’s home keeps sleepy Bengal varsity town on edge

Visva-Bharati has accused Sen of illegally occupying 13 decimals of the 1.38 acres covered by his house ‘Pratichi’. (HT Photo)

Updated 1189 days ago

If Visva Bharati tries to bulldoze Amartya Sen’s house, I’ll sit there: Mamata

Set up in 1921 by Rabindranath Tagore, Visva Bharati is West Bengal’s only central university. (Facebook | Mamata Banerjee)

Updated 1195 days ago

Visva-Bharati’s claim on ancestral land has no standing, says Amartya Sen

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen speaks with the media at his ancestral home ‘Pratichi’ at Santiniketan in Birbhum district (PTI File Photo)

Updated 1203 days ago

Bengal govt declares school, college holidays from Monday as heatwave continues

The Bengal government earlier said that summer vacation in schools would start from May 2 instead of end-May. (Representative Image)

Updated 1205 days ago

Visva-Bharati serves final eviction notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen

The university sent three letters to Sen since January 24 and issued an eviction notice on March 17. (File image)

Updated 1207 days ago

Bengal: Visva Bharati University vice-chancellor ‘attacked’ during protest

Students have been protesting near residence of vice-chancellor Prof Bidyut Chakrabarty.

Updated 1329 days ago

Constitution was the first canvas of modern masters

Constitution was the first canvas of modern masters

Updated 615 days ago

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