Santiniketan is India’s 41st Unesco World Heritage Site. The area covers the cluster of “historic buildings, landscapes and gardens, pavilions and artworks” within the campus featuring the ...

Santiniketan, Dec. 13: Police have formed a special team to investigate the frequent thefts of sandalwood trees in Santiniketan and prevent the crime. The police have questioned at least 150 people, ...

A visionary who influenced Bengali music, literature and art with his poignant verses and radical thinking, Rabindranath ...

Santiniketan: A 46-year-old Trinamool Congress panchayat member was severely assaulted at Kankalitala's Paruldanga under Santiniketan police station on Saturday night. Samir Thandar was taken to ...

Much of Visva-Bharati and Santiniketan’s recent troubles, it is widely felt, start at the door of the Central university’s former vice-chancellor, Bidyut Chakrabarty.

Santiniketan was without boundaries in those times, and no walls separated the various buildings of the institution. On later visits too I had noticed that there were no houses around the canal area.

The first attempt at UNESCO tag for Santiniketan happened in 2010, which did not succeed. From 2021 onward, a renewed effort was made, and this time, it clicked.

For a long time, I cherished the dream of visiting Santiniketan, but it did not happen until our recent trip to Kolkata with my wife and youngest daughter. We left our hotel in Kolkata by car around 9 ...

India News: SANTINIKETAN: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was on Saturday accorded a traditional welcome as he arrived here to preside over the annual Convoca ...

Santiniketan: A UNESCO team will is expected here on October five to assess whether Santiniketan, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's abode of peace, could be listed as a world heritage site.

Santiniketan taught us that there is no such thing as worthless activity. Excerpted with permission from Our Santiniketan, Mahasweta Devi, translated from the Bengali by Radha Chakravarty, ...