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Shantiniketan (IPA: [ʃantiniketɔn]) is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore , and later expanded by his son, Rabindranath Tagore whose vision became what is now a university town with the ...
Visva-Bharati (IAST: Viśva-Bhāratī), (Bengali: [biʃːɔbʱaroti]) is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India. Until independence it was a college.
Debendranath Tagore established Santiniketan in 1861, a small place for prayers and meditation with land from Bhuban Mohan Singha of Raipur. [1] [2] Rabindranath Tagore started a Brahmacharyaashrama in 1901 and it came to be known as Patha Bhavana from 1925. [3] Founded in 1921 by him, Visva Bharati was declared to be a central university in ...
Kala Bhavana was established in 1919. [1] [2] Although art historians have not been able to determine its exact date of foundation, it celebrated its centenary in 2019.[3] [4] Asit Kumar Haldar was an art teacher at Santiniketan Vidyalaya from 1911 to 1915 and was in charge of Kala Bhavana from 1919 to 1921.
Prestige Group was founded by Razack Sattar who is a Kutchi Memon. [7] During the 1960s and late 1970s his sons Irfan Razack and Rezwan Razack worked with him, and his youngest son Noaman Razzack also joined when the business grew. [8] It began as a retail business, but moved to real estate with its first project Prestige Court at KH road ...
Nandalal Bose, who left a major imprint on Indian art, was the first recipient of a scholarship offered by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907. In 1954, he became the first artist to be elected Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art. In 1954, Nandalal Bose was awarded the Padma Vibhushan.
Bharat Mata (1905), by Abanindranath Tagore, a pioneer of the movement and Rabindranath Tagore's nephew.. The Bengal School of Art, commonly referred as Bengal School, [1] was an art movement and a style of Indian painting that originated in Bengal, primarily Calcutta and Shantiniketan, and flourished throughout the Indian subcontinent, during the British Raj in the early 20th century.
He went on to establish Sri Palee College in Horana, based on the Rabindranath Tagore's Shantiniketan in 1934. [1] [4] The foundation stone was laid by Tagore on 20 May 1934 on his last visit to Ceylon. The Sri Palee Trust was established by him to manage the lands gifted by him.