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    Santiniketan News

    Drawing Room: Vandana Kothari on K G Subramanyan’s striking murals

    K G Subramanyan’s black-and-white murals cover the design department building at Kala Bhavana art school.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 36 days ago

    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)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 147 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)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 239 days ago

    Handwritten letters by Rabindranath Tagore to be auctioned

    Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. (File Photo)
    Cities
    Published 445 days ago

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

    Santiniketan's Asrama area to be reopened to public soon: Official
    Cities
    Published 539 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)
    India News
    Updated 540 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
    India News
    Published 548 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.
    Lifestyle
    Published 858 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
    Lifestyle
    Published 858 days ago

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

    Economist and Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen. (File photo)
    India News
    Published 955 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)
    Cities
    Published 1015 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)
    Books
    Updated 1026 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)
    Cities
    Published 1051 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)
    India News
    Published 1055 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)
    India News
    Updated 1057 days ago

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

    Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal (File Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 1086 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.
    Cities
    Published 1089 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)
    India News
    Updated 1091 days ago

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

    Prime Minister Modi and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
    India News
    Published 1091 days ago

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

    Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.
    India News
    Updated 1091 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.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 1148 days ago

    Santiniketan proposed for inclusion in Unesco heritage list, says govt

    Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.
    India News
    Updated 1221 days ago

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

    Nobel laureate Amartya Sen (File Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 1224 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)
    India News
    Updated 1229 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)
    Cities
    Updated 1235 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)
    India News
    Updated 1243 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)
    Cities
    Updated 1245 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)
    Cities
    Updated 1247 days ago

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

    Students have been protesting near residence of vice-chancellor Prof Bidyut Chakrabarty.
    Cities
    Updated 1369 days ago

    Constitution was the first canvas of modern masters

    Constitution was the first canvas of modern masters
    Editors Pick
    Updated 655 days ago
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