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Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan Inscribed On UNESCO World Heritage List
1 year, 3 months ago

Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan Inscribed On UNESCO World Heritage List

ABP News  

Santiniketan, the hallowed grounds in West Bengal where the esteemed poet Rabindranath Tagore established Visva-Bharati more than a century ago, has secured its rightful place on the UNESCO World Heritage List. A ‘world university’ was established at Santiniketan in 1921, recognizing the unity of humanity or “Visva Bharati”," the UNESCO World Heritage Convention page reads. West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata …

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Mamata Banerjee asks Ministers to start sit-in outside Amartya Sen's house over eviction notice
1 year, 7 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 …

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Row over Sen’s home keeps sleepy Bengal varsity town on edge
1 year, 7 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 …

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

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BJP should not insult him like this: Mamata Banerjee backs Amartya Sen amid land grab allegations
1 year, 10 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 …

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

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Bengal’s First Vande Bharat Express to Make a Pit Stop at Tagore’s Santiniketan
1 year, 11 months ago

Bengal’s First Vande Bharat Express to Make a Pit Stop at Tagore’s Santiniketan

News 18  

West Bengal will get its first Vande Bharat Express from December 30 as the Prime Minister will inaugurate the premium train between Howrah to New Jalpaiguri, with stop at Santiniketan – the abode of poet, philosopher and social reformer late Rabindranath Tagore. In the letter, which he also shared on Twitter, Majumdar wrote: “We are already aware of the train …

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The debate around Tagore's chair and the Argentina connection
3 years, 10 months ago

The debate around Tagore's chair and the Argentina connection

Op India  

Last week, Congress, in its bid to mount an attack against Amit Shah and in an attempt to tarnish the image of the BJP ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections resorted to lies to allege that the Union Home Minister sat on the hallowed chair of Bengali icon Rabindranath Tagore. Speaking at Lok Sabha on February 8, Congress leader …

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Mamata Banerjee Says Amartya Sen Attacked for Views Against Centre, Nobel Laureate ‘Touched’ by Support
3 years, 11 months 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 …

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Amartya Sen Says Land Occupied by Him in Santiniketan Registered on Long Term Lease
3 years, 11 months 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 …

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Outrage in Santiniketan Over BJP Hoardings with Pictures of Amit Shah and Rabindranath Tagore in Same Frame
4 years ago

Outrage in Santiniketan Over BJP Hoardings with Pictures of Amit Shah and Rabindranath Tagore in Same Frame

News 18  

Ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Bolpur in Birbhum district, hoardings with his picture above that of Rabindranath Tagore in the same frame caused outrage on Friday in neighbouring Santiniketan, which is famous as the bard’s abode for long years. Supriyo Tagore, an ashramite of Santiniketan and a descendant of the famed Tagore family, said it was …

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A dividing wall at Santiniketan
4 years, 3 months ago

A dividing wall at Santiniketan

The Hindu  

T wo weeks after violence erupted at Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan on August 17 over the construction of a boundary wall around the Poush Mela ground, the impasse continued with the university authorities threatening to keep the institution closed until they felt it was safe to reopen it. That day, Mamata Banerjee said at a press conference: “I do not …

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