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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Winter art and the Bengal Biennale

Director and curator Siddharth Sivakumar and Trustees Malvika Banerjee and Jeet Banerjee’s Gameplan have launched the first- ever Bengal Biennale, a multigenerational tapestry of artistic expression, bringing together a diverse array of artists and their unique perspectives. The event this winter, to be held across two venues — the university town of Santiniketan from November 29 to December 22, 2024, …

Art Work Chopra Installation His Work Santiniketan Biennale

1 year, 8 months ago

Calcutta High Court stays Visva Bharati eviction order against Amartya Sen’s ancestral land

The Hindu

Published : May 05, 2023 15:03 IST - 5 MINS READ Amartya Sen, the renowned Nobel Laureate, has been granted a reprieve as the Calcutta High Court issued an interim stay order on May 4. This order restrains Visva Bharati University from enforcing Sen’s eviction from 0.13 acres of his ancestral land in Santiniketan by May 6. On April 19, …

High Court University Land Order Bjp Sen Acres

1 year, 8 months ago

Locals stage protest in Santiniketan against Amartya Sen's eviction notice

India Today

A group of intellectuals and locals took out a rally outside Amartya Sen's residence 'Prachiti' in Santiniketan on Friday. Vishwa-Bharti, a central university, issued an eviction notice to Sen on April 19 accusing him of “illegally occupying” 0.13 acres or 5,500 sq ft of land on the campus, as per a PTI report. The committee members marched from the junction …

Sen Eviction Notice Visva Bharati Amartya Locals Stage

1 year, 8 months ago

Calcutta HC stays Visva Bharati’s eviction notice to Amartya Sen

The Hindu

The Calcutta High Court on May 4 gave an interim stay against a move by the Visva Bharati University to evict Amartya Sen from 13 decimal of land, which is part of the Nobel laureate’s ancestral house Pratichi at Santiniketan, in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. “Having heard the learned advocates, the learned District Judge, Birbhum is requested to hear the …

University Land Sen Bharati Santiniketan Stays Visva

1 year, 8 months ago

Mamata Banerjee asks Ministers to start sit-in outside Amartya Sen's house over eviction notice

The Hindu

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked State Ministers to begin a sit-in outside Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's residence in Santiniketan in Birbhum district to protest against the Visva-Bharati's eviction notice, an official said. During a Cabinet meeting on May 2, Ms. Banerjee asked MSME Minister Chandranath Sinha, the local MLA, to lead the protest, which will be joined …

Land Ministers Sen Eviction Notice Banerjee Minister Mamata Santiniketan

1 year, 8 months ago

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

Hindustan Times

Standing at the far end of a plot of land covered by trees and potted plants, the two-storey house appeared submerged in peace and silence on a sweltering April afternoon in Santiniketan until a policeman emerged from a tent pitched under a mango tree. Accusing Sen of occupying public land, the eviction order said: “There are directives/advisories from the Gov’t …

Eviction Land Order House Sen Bandopadhyay Acres

1 year, 8 months ago

'Will Evict Amartya Sen by Force if Need Be': Why Is Visva-Bharati Under Fire?

The Quint

Over the past year, the university's vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty has been alleging that the economist is in possession of 1.38 acre of land on the Santiniketan campus. Chakrabarty said that Sen's father, who was a professor at the university, had rented only 1.25 acres of land on a 99-year lease in 1943, and thus, the remaining portion of the land …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Congress puts its weight behind Amartya Sen after Visva Bharati’s eviction notice at his Santiniketan residence

The Hindu

After the Trinamool Congress, the Congress leadership has put its weight behind Nobel laureate Amartya Sen who is embroiled in a public tussle with Visva-Bharati University over the ownership of a portion of the land on which his ancestral house ‘Pratichi’ stands at Santiniketan. Earlier, Congress leader and West Bengal Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had targeted the BJP …

Congress Land Bjp Nobel Sen Prof Santiniketan

1 year, 8 months ago

Visva Bharati University tells Amartya Sen to vacate 13 decimals of land by May 6

The Hindu

Visva Bharati University in an eviction order has asked Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to vacate the 13 decimals of land which he has been allegedly occupying in an unauthorised manner by May 6 or within 15 days of the publication of the last order on April 19. Contending as per government of India advisories and CAG reports the century old …

Land Sen Visva Bharati Visva Bharati University Visva Bharati 13 Decimals

1 year, 8 months ago

Visva-Bharati University tells Amartya Sen to vacate 13 decimals of land by May 6

Deccan Chronicle

KOLKATA: Visva-Bharati University in an eviction order has asked Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to vacate the 13 decimals of land which he has been allegedly occupying in an unauthorised manner by May 6 or within 15 days of the publication of the last order on April 19. Contending as per government of India advisories and CAG reports the century-old Central …

University Land Pti Sen Acres Visva Bharati Bharati

1 year, 8 months ago

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

Hindustan Times

This is the 89-year-old economist’s first official reply to the eviction notice issued by Visva-Bharati, Bengal’s only central university. The university’s April 13 notice said that Sen had failed to respond to the institution’s previous letters and a March 17 eviction notice on his alleged illegal occupancy of a portion of land, and that an eviction order will be passed …

University Land Notice Sen Issued Santiniketan

1 year, 8 months ago

Visva-Bharati University pastes notice on Amartya Sen’s property despite court’s intervention

The Hindu

The authorities of Visva-Bharati University on Friday pasted a notice on the premises of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in Santiniketan. The three-page notice signed by the university authorities was pasted on ‘Pratichi’, the house of Prof. Sen despite an order by the Executive Magistrate in Birbhum directing officers of the Santiniketan police station to maintain peace and tranquillity in the …

University Notice Sen Prof Santiniketan Vbu Vbufa

1 year, 8 months ago

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

Hindustan Times

Visva-Bharati University on Thursday issued the final eviction notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen stating that the institution will pass its eviction order on April 19 to take back a portion of the land covered by Sen’s ancestral property on the campus at Santiniketan in Bengal’s Birbhum district. The university sent three letters to Sen since January 24 and issued …

University Eviction Notice Nobel Sen Visva Bharati Santiniketan

1 year, 9 months ago

Land grab issue | Visva-Bharati asks Amartya Sen to show cause why he should not be evicted

The Hindu

Visva-Bharati university has issued a notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen asking him to show cause why an eviction order will not be issued against him for not vacating a 13 decimal plot he is allegedly occupying illegally. "I call upon you to appear before me in person or through a duly authorised representative capable to answer all material questions …

University Land Notice Sen Sent Santiniketan

1 year, 11 months ago

BJP should not insult him like this: Mamata Banerjee backs Amartya Sen amid land grab allegations

India Today

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has come out in support of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen amid allegations of land grabbing against him. The Visva Bharati University has accused Amartya Sen's family of being in illegal possession of land on the Santiniketan campus. After the meeting, CM Mamata Banerjee also ordered the setting up of a police camp outside Amartya …

Mamata Mamata Banerjee Nobel Sen Visva Bharati Visva Bharati

1 year, 11 months ago

Don’t know why Visva-Bharati is trying to oust me from Santiniketan: Amartya Sen

The Hindu

Lashing out at the Visva-Bharati for asking him to hand over parts of a plot he was allegedly occupying “unauthorisedly” at Santiniketan, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday said he did not understand why the central university suddenly had become "so active" in trying to drive him out of that place. I also do not understand the politics behind this …

University Land Santiniketan Amartya Mr Sen

1 year, 11 months ago

Visva Bharati asks Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen to return Santiniketan land

Live Mint

Visva Bharati has asked Nobel laureate and Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen to turn over a section of a land tract in West Bengal's Santiniketan that it claims the economist has been using in an "unauthorised" manner. In January 2021, Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty of Visva Bharati charged Sen's family with possessing land on the campus illegally. Sen previously commended the chief …

Land Sen Bharat Visva Bharati Visva Bharati

1 year, 11 months ago

Visva Bharati asks Amartya Sen to hand over parts of leased land in Bengal's Santiniketan

India Today

The Visva Bharati on Tuesday urged Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to hand over parts of a plot of land in West Bengal's Santiniketan, claiming that he has been occupying the portion in an unauthorised manner. The nobel laureate's father Asutosh Sen had taken 125 decimals of land on lease from the varsity in 1943, its spokesperson Mahua Banerjee said. In …

Land Sen Visva Bharati Bharati Asks

4 years ago

Mamata Banerjee Says Amartya Sen Attacked for Views Against Centre, Nobel Laureate ‘Touched’ by Support

News 18

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is being attacked by the BJP for his views against the Union government after Visva Bharati, a central university, named the 87-year-old laureate among squatters on its land. Banerjee last week had written a letter to Sen expressing her anguish after the 100-year-old central university had said …

Bjp Nobel Sen Bengal Banerjee Communists Santiniketan

4 years ago

Amartya Sen Accuses Visva Bharti VC For 'Acting At The Behest Of Central Government'

ABP News

Kolkata: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has accused the vice-chancellor of Visva Bharti of acting at the behest of the Union Government “with its growing control over Bengal”, over the raging row of his family being in “illegal” possession of the land.Sen was born in 1933 at Santiniketan, which is home to Visva-Bharati, the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, another Nobel …

Land Sen Bengal Amartya

4 years ago

Visva Bharati-Amartya Sen land row: Nobel laureate accuses university VC of acting on Centre's behest

Firstpost

A controversy erupted on Thursday when reports said that the university wrote to the West Bengal govt alleging that land owned by it was wrongfully recorded in the names of private parties, including Sen Kolkata: At the centre of a row over his family being in “illegal” possession of land at Visva Bharati, a livid Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has …

University West Bengal Land Centre Nobel Sen Bengal

4 years ago

Amartya Sen Says Land Occupied by Him in Santiniketan Registered on Long Term Lease

News 18

Responding to the controversy following media reports that Visva Bharati has named him among those occupying additional illegal plot, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said that the entire land occupied by him is registered in records and is entirely on long term lease. Referring to media reports that Visva Bharati Vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty is busy arranging the eviction of unauthorized …

Land Nobel Sen Visva Bharati Santiniketan Long Term Lease

4 years ago

Visva Bharati University accuses Amartya Sen of illegal occupation of land

Op India

Nobel Laureate and leftist ‘intellectual’ Amartya Sen‘s name has come up in the list of people illegally occupying the land belonging to Visva Bharati University in West Bengal. Central government’s control over West Bengal is growing: Sen Sen has allegedly illegally occupied 13 decimals of land which is in addition to the 125 decimal land legally leased to his late …

West Bengal Land Central Sen Santiniketan Illegal Occupation University Accuses

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Winter art and the Bengal Biennale

Calcutta High Court stays Visva Bharati eviction order against Amartya Sen’s ancestral land

Locals stage protest in Santiniketan against Amartya Sen's eviction notice

Calcutta HC stays Visva Bharati’s eviction notice to Amartya Sen

Mamata Banerjee asks Ministers to start sit-in outside Amartya Sen's house over eviction notice

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

'Will Evict Amartya Sen by Force if Need Be': Why Is Visva-Bharati Under Fire?

Congress puts its weight behind Amartya Sen after Visva Bharati’s eviction notice at his Santiniketan residence

Visva Bharati University tells Amartya Sen to vacate 13 decimals of land by May 6

Visva-Bharati University tells Amartya Sen to vacate 13 decimals of land by May 6

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

Visva-Bharati University pastes notice on Amartya Sen’s property despite court’s intervention

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

Land grab issue | Visva-Bharati asks Amartya Sen to show cause why he should not be evicted

BJP should not insult him like this: Mamata Banerjee backs Amartya Sen amid land grab allegations

Don’t know why Visva-Bharati is trying to oust me from Santiniketan: Amartya Sen

Visva Bharati asks Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen to return Santiniketan land

Visva Bharati asks Amartya Sen to hand over parts of leased land in Bengal's Santiniketan

Mamata Banerjee Says Amartya Sen Attacked for Views Against Centre, Nobel Laureate ‘Touched’ by Support

Amartya Sen Accuses Visva Bharti VC For 'Acting At The Behest Of Central Government'

Visva Bharati-Amartya Sen land row: Nobel laureate accuses university VC of acting on Centre's behest

Amartya Sen Says Land Occupied by Him in Santiniketan Registered on Long Term Lease

Visva Bharati University accuses Amartya Sen of illegal occupation of land