Visva-Bharati has decided to preserve five trees which were planted by Rabindranath Tagore in 1925, on his birthday, in the Uttarayan complex on the varsity campus here.The varsity officials said that...

Three tribal hamlets that were set up on Visva-Bharati’s land during the days of Rabindranath Tagore will become a part of Bolpur municipality once the Bengal government gives its nod to the move.Th...

By staging the complete version of Mayar Khela, spanning a good three and a half hours, the Mumbai-based Mohor has achieved something extraordinary. Dubbed as ‘A Musical Extravaganza: Unabridged’,...

New Town Residents’ Welfare ForumThe programme started late because of some technical problems but the enthusiasm of the performers made up for the lost time. About 30 residents, mostly from New Tow...

A couple of years ago a few of us started a book club, which meets twice every month. Unlike many (most?) book clubs, we decided not to have everyone read the same book and then discuss it (shades of ...

Bengal gave him his two most important epithets — Mahatma (by Rabindranath Tagore) and Father of the Nation (by Subhas Chandra Bose). But Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi — all through his life and beyo...

Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu will inaugurate the renovated Shyamali, Rabindranath Tagore’s mud house, on August 16. The renovation of Shyamali, which was built in 1935 and is one of Tagore’s five...

Two recent events in the city stood out for their intimacy and instant connect with the audience. The first one, Durbar-E-Padabali, at the Birla Academy brought out the essence of padabali or baithaki...

Over 46 days from April 15, Birla Academy treated those in isolation during the lockdown to a serialized art feast comprising works by around 108 artists, almost all of them taken from its own collect...

Rakesh Kumar, a hearing-impaired youth, shows a drawing of Rabindranath Tagore on the bard’s 159th birth anniversary on Friday. The 24-year-old has been a boarder at Bodhana, a home for special chil...