Tagore wanted the welfare of the rural poor not by prodding mere literacy but by nurturing and widening their minds to give strength and consciousness. According to Tagore, reading and writing is a secondary question, communication from heart to heart is what matters more. He reiterated that without restoration of balance between city and village, no development was possible
The ASI team surveyed the "original" parts of the university, including the Kanch Mandir Upsana Griha, Santiniketan Bari (the first building that housed Debendranath Tagore and his family after Bhubandanga was bought by him), Uttarayan complex, Kala Bhavana, Sangeet Bhavan and all other structures built by Tagore as part of his dream university.
Despite the problematics that are embedded within translation practices, it is translation as cultural transfer that sensitizes the world about cultural diversity.
“We have submitted proposals to the Department of Archaeology for repairing the dilapidated building of historic Kacharibari and a technical team of the department visited the spot. After getting expert's opinion, we will go for repairing it,” said Md Jayed Hossain, custodian of Shahzadpur Rabindra Kacharibari.
Tagore's innovative mind and creative dynamism welcomed the emergence of the cinema as an art form and he clearly perceived the keen link between cinema and commerce. He did not take long to realize that making a film was not like writing a novel.
Taking a detour from the bookish conversations, the virtual cultural exchange had voices from the USA, India, Bangladesh and Indonesia sharing their personal anecdotes of Tagore.
Appropriately enough, the renovation project could well have been initiated in 2013, the centenary year of Tagore's Nobel prize.
Tagore not only denounced class and caste divisions, but he skeptically scrutinized the construction of the nation on narrow parochial lines. 'I am not against one nation in particular, but against the general idea of all nations. What is the Nation?' Tagore asks in his famous essay on Nationalism in India.
“Titled ‘Smarane barane Gurudev o Mahatma' (Remembering and recalling Gurudev and Mahatma), the exhibition would showcase correspondence between the ‘two great souls of India’, besides displaying archival photos,” a university official said.
Debut director Nirmal Chakraborty is adapting Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyays Datta to the silver screen. In this candid conversation, he speaks about the period films conception, importance of workshops and Santiniketan as a backdrop.
