Beautiful Bolpur & Shantiniketan T"he Rabi Thakur's Nest"
Shantiniketan Is A Small Town Near Bolpur In The Birbhum District Of West Bengal And About 212 Kms North Of Kolkata. It Is Famous Due To Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Whose Vision Became What Is Now A University Town - Visva-Bharati University. The Place Now Attracts Thousands Of Visitors Each Year.Shantiniketan Was Earlier Called Bhubandanga (Named After Bhuban Dakat, A Local Dacoit), And Was Owned By The Tagore Family. In 1862, Maharishi Devendranath Tagore, The Poet™s Father, While On A Boat Journey To Raipur, Came Across A Landscape With Red Soil And Lush Green Paddy Fields. He Decided To Plant More Saplings And Built A Small House. He Called His Home Shantiniketan. He Founded An Ashram Here In 1863 And Became The Initiator Of The Bramho Samaj.In 1901, Rabindranath Started A School At Shantiniketan Named Bramhachari Ashram That Was Modeled On The Lines Of The Ancient Gurukul System That Later Came To Be Known As The Patha Bhavan, The School Of His Ideals, With Central Premise That Learning In A Natural Environment Would Be More Enjoyable And Fruitful. With The Financial Backing Of The Maharajah Of Tripura, The Visva-Bharati Society Was Established In 1921. Tagore Envisioned A Center Of Learning Which Would Have The Best Of Both The East And The West. Nobel Prize (1913) Won By Rabindranath Tagore, Not Only The Enhanced The Pride Of India But Also The Prestige Of Shantiniketan. The School Was Expanded Into A University. It Was Named Visva-Bharati, Which Was Defined By Tagore As ‘Where The World Makes A Home In A Nest.†The Open-Air Education As Opposed To Being Cloistered In The Four Walls Of A Classroom Became A Reality Here. Eminent People From All Over The World Came To Visva-Bharati During Its Peak Period. Visva-Bharati Became A Central University In 1951. Leaves Of The Chhatim (Saptaparni – Or 7-Leaf Sprigs) Trees Are Given To Graduating Students At The Annual Convocation. Many World Famous Teachers Have Become Associated With It Over The Years. Indira Gandhi, Satyajit Ray, And Amartya Sen Are Among Its Illustrious Students. The Prime Minister Of India Is The Chancellor Of The University.
Shantiniketan Is A Small Town Near Bolpur In The Birbhum District Of West Bengal And About 212 Kms North Of Kolkata. It Is Famous Due To Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Whose Vision Became What Is Now A University Town - Visva-Bharati University. The Place Now Attracts Thousands Of Visitors Each Year.Shantiniketan Was Earlier Called Bhubandanga (Named After Bhuban Dakat, A Local Dacoit), And Was Owned By The Tagore Family. In 1862, Maharishi Devendranath Tagore, The Poet™s Father, While On A Boat Journey To Raipur, Came Across A Landscape With Red Soil And Lush Green Paddy Fields. He Decided To Plant More Saplings And Built A Small House. He Called His Home Shantiniketan. He Founded An Ashram Here In 1863 And Became The Initiator Of The Bramho Samaj.In 1901, Rabindranath Started A School At Shantiniketan Named Bramhachari Ashram That Was Modeled On The Lines Of The Ancient Gurukul System That Later Came To Be Known As The Patha Bhavan, The School Of His Ideals, With Central Premise That Learning In A Natural Environment Would Be More Enjoyable And Fruitful. With The Financial Backing Of The Maharajah Of Tripura, The Visva-Bharati Society Was Established In 1921. Tagore Envisioned A Center Of Learning Which Would Have The Best Of Both The East And The West. Nobel Prize (1913) Won By Rabindranath Tagore, Not Only The Enhanced The Pride Of India But Also The Prestige Of Shantiniketan. The School Was Expanded Into A University. It Was Named Visva-Bharati, Which Was Defined By Tagore As ‘Where The World Makes A Home In A Nest.†The Open-Air Education As Opposed To Being Cloistered In The Four Walls Of A Classroom Became A Reality Here. Eminent People From All Over The World Came To Visva-Bharati During Its Peak Period. Visva-Bharati Became A Central University In 1951. Leaves Of The Chhatim (Saptaparni – Or 7-Leaf Sprigs) Trees Are Given To Graduating Students At The Annual Convocation. Many World Famous Teachers Have Become Associated With It Over The Years. Indira Gandhi, Satyajit Ray, And Amartya Sen Are Among Its Illustrious Students. The Prime Minister Of India Is The Chancellor Of The University.
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