Kolkata celebrates Tagores contribution

Santiniketan, May 7: Visva-Bharati will organise a weeklong exhibition on the first editions of some of Tagore's books published between 1878 and 1925.

Brown and organic rice were just words to many who lived in citiesMany of those who visited my craft shop in Santiniketan had been asking for “brown” or “hulled” rice. Probably the ambience of the shop - the fact that we use no plastic and that recycling plays a big part in the products we design - made them think that we might have access to some villagers with a hull. Those who asked were mostly tourists from Kolkata, and as far as I know there are many shops ...

Santiniketan, April 7: Visva-Bharati has decided to curtail some of its holidays for teachers and non-teaching employees who are involved in administrative work, a move aimed at improving work culture.

Located 212 km from Kolkata, Santiniketan has a unique cultural identity. Rabindranath Tagore started an experimental open-air school known as 'Patha Bhavan' here with the objective of educating the student in close liaison with nature. In 1921, the ...

tapati chowdurie reports on an event in Santiniketan where classical dance and music added to the colour of Dol UtsavVASANTA Utsav or the Spring Festival of Santiniketan has come to signify the festival of colours for nearly last three decades. This ...

Ever since I came to Santiniketan, some acquaintances involved in real estate dealings had been telling me to invest in land. Since I had not bought even a tile by way of real estate in Mumbai

Ranga hashi rashi rashi ashokey palashey, Ranga nesha meghe mesha pravato akashey... Santiniketan, March 26: Tomorrow morning at the baitalik procession in Visva-Bharati, hundreds of students will sing Ore Grihobashi and sway to the music, but they ...

Santiniketan (WB), Mar 23 (PTI) A computer hard disk was found missing and documents lay scattered in the high security audit section of Visva Bharati University today.University sources said locks of two rooms, including of the audit section on the ...

Be it Santiniketan-based potter Lipi Biswas's range of tableware or Narayan Sinha's jewellery designs that use parts of watches and screws, 'Fashion on a Platter', organised by Ekru in association with t2 at the Bhowanipore design store, is high on ...