“We procured the brass casting from Rajabazar — they have the best artisans,” smiles Tony. Another tricky element was the floating pedal. When a piano has twin floating pedals (like ...

Rabindranath Tagore’s nine-day visit to Thailand, then known as Siam, in 1927 will be showcased in a permanent exhibition at Jorasanko Thakurbari. A room has been allotted to the Thai authoriti...

Book: A History Of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work In Rural Reconstruction Author: Uma Das Gupta Publisher: Niyogi Price: ₹450 For most of us, Rabindranath Tagore is prim...

Five favourite songs sung by you? Amar haat bandhibi, O je mane na mana, Tomra ja bolo tai bolo, Premey jwol hoye jao gole, Malaya batashe Your favourite singers? Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Kishor...

“Rabindranath Tagore is celebrated as a man of various dimensions — prolific writer, educator and social reformer. Children at Asian International School, Howrah paid homage to him through...

A hospital in Kolkata has set up a laboratory where results for advanced cancer tests will be given within seven days, the same tests that took between 18 and 25 days earlier as the samples were sent ...

Gitanjali saw students reciting Tagore’s poems, singing his songs and dancing to them...

Though completed in 1929, the memorial hall remained a blind spot. And then in 1977, Jyoti Basu, who was then the chief minister of West Bengal, decided to make a museum of it. He donat...