Everything you need to know about Santiniketan Lsg: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Santiniketan Lsg: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) One can now have access to the entire oeuvre of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore online, in both Bengali and English.
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) A pair of sunglasses, a book of poems, old gramophone records: These and other items brought back to Santiniketan from Argentina take one to the early 20th century and the enigmatic relationship between Argentine writer and feminist Victoria Ocampo and Noble laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) A pair of sunglasses, a book of poems, old gramophone records: These and other items brought back to Santiniketan from Argentina take one to the early 20th century and the enigmatic relationship between Argentine writer and feminist Victoria Ocampo and Noble laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Temple art was the trademark of traditional Indian clothes and accessories for centuries, setting them apart from western apparel with a distinct colour, motif and design scheme. But the arrival of contemporary art has given Indian designers new metaphors for interpretations.
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Three hundred years ago, India went to Europe with realistic paintings of villages, the green countryside, temples, forts, people and festivals in water colours and prints. Over the centuries, landscapes have lived at the heart of the Indian art movements, morphing from the early visual documentary essays to contemporary abstraction.
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) The case of a Class 5 student being allegedly made to drink her own urine in West Bengal's Viswa Bharati campus, founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, took a curious turn Monday with both the warden and the parents being arrested and later released on bail.
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore has found yet another permanent roosting perch in Europe. A centre dedicated to the life and works of Tagore, described in Britain as India's 'Robert Burns and the Bengali Shakespeare', has been opened in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nevada (US), July 18 (ANI): New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) in New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) will display Hindu deities in bronze in an exhibition titled "The Elegant Image" from August 5 to October 23.
New Delhi, May 7(ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Saturday released a set of two commemorative postage stamps commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Leading artist Jatin Das, who is exhibiting solo in the capital after nine years, hates exhibitions as he says they represent the indiscriminate commodification of art.
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) The 149th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was celebrated Saturday amid great enthusiasm across West Bengal with renderings of songs and poems composed by him.
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has started writing his memoirs as his tenure is coming to an end after the new house is elected later this month, an official said Wednesday.
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The sense of being trapped in the concrete and lifeless urban jungles of big cities draws viewers to Mumbai-based senior artist Jaideep Mehrotra's works.
Bolpur (West Bengal), April 3 (IANS) In 1985 Somnath Chatterjee arrived here to revive his parliamentary career in a bypoll, months after his shock defeat to then relatively unknown Mamata Banerjee in Jadavpore. Almost a quarter century later, as another election approaches, Bolpur is missing its seven-time MP who rose to become the country's first communist Lok Sabha speaker.
Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) West Bengal Wednesday celebrated Holi, or Dol Jatra as it is called in the state, with colour, songs and prayers.
Bangalore, Jan 26 (IANS) A bus bay in this overcrowded city provided a rare sight - art aficionados admiring paintings at a bus bay and asking artists what motivates them to paint.
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) There is a rising demand in India to learn the Chinese language, but New Delhi is hardly issuing visa to teachers from China, says Beijing's top diplomat here.
Warsaw, Dec 25 (IANS) A scholar here has published the first Bengali grammar in Polish so that people can 'grasp the beauty of the language of Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee'.
Santiniketan (West Bengal), Dec 8 (IANS) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths visited Visva Bharati university Monday as part of their reopened probe into the theft of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize medallion and other memorabilia.
Kolkata, Dec 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday cancelled his trip to West Bengal's Malda district due to heavy fog and poor visibility in adjacent Purnea from where his chopper was supposed to take off. He has left for New Delhi.
Santiniketan (West Bengal), Dec 6 (IANS) Expressing deep concern over 'an unacceptable rise in intolerance', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday underlined the nation's democratic ideals of peaceful coexistence 'where we can disagree but still work together'.
Kolkata, Dec 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has announced Rs. 95 crore package for the infrastructure development of Kolkata's Viswa-Bharati University.
Kolkata, Dec 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday announced a grant of Rs.950 million for the Visva Bharati University at Santiniketan in West Bengal.
Kolkata, Dec 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will begin his two-day visit to Kolkata from today.
Kolkata, Dec 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit -- his first to West Bengal after the Mumbai terror strikes - is set to recede to the background on popularity count, as Kolkatans brace up to give a rousing welcome to 'God of football' Diego Maradona during his two-day visit Saturday.
Kolkata, Dec 5 (IANS) A thick security blanket has been thrown over Kolkata and the districts of West Bengal in view of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two-day trip to the state beginning Saturday.
Mumbai, Oct 28 (IANS) She has been part of Indian cinema for 10 years, but Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's daughter, actress Nandana Sen, has never done a Bengali film before even though she 'thinks and dreams' in the language!
Kolkata, Oct 4 (IANS) Indian art is being enriched with a free flow of ideas and concepts between creative people at exchange forums like art camps, which are gradually breaching the divide between the old and new order of artists.
Kolkata, Oct 4 (IANS) Indian art is being enriched with a free flow of ideas and concepts between creative people at exchange forums like art camps, which are gradually breaching the divide between the old and new order of artists.
New Delhi, August 20 (ANI): The tile mural 'Freedom to Wisdom' was unveiled by Air Marshal J.N. Burma, Air Officer in-charge Administration, Air Headquarters in an impressive ceremony at Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute, Subroto Park here today.
A day after getting adverse outcome in the trust vote, the CPM in its meeting on Wednesday expelled the veteran CPM leader and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath
