santiniketan in A Sentence

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    What better place than Santiniketan to suit all his requirements?

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    But the respite was brief and intermittent Santiniketan clamoured for his attention.

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    The world had become his stage and Santiniketan an ideal studio for rehearsals.

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    In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan which later came to be known as Vishwabharati University.

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    Their first halt was Santiniketan, now known internationally as a seat of learning, at that time its very name unknown.

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    As during the previous crisis, no adequate medical help was readily available, and Kalimpong was even farther from Calcutta than Santiniketan.

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    His ideas on this issue are formulated in the catalogue essay of the exhibition Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism.

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    Day and night I dream of Santiniketan which blossoms like a flower in the atmosphere of the unbounded freedom of simplicity.

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    Mainly as Rabindranath Tagore's home and now a university, Santiniketan is a small town located in the Birbhum district of West Bengal.

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    On 22 December 1901 he inaugurated his school at Santiniketan, with five pupils, among them his eldest son, and with as many teachers.

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    On 7 August 1940 the University of Oxford held a special Convocation at Santiniketan for the purpose of conferring on Tagore its Doctorate honoris causa.

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    The play was staged both at Santiniketan and in Calcutta, Tagore playing the double role of the Poet and the blind Baul or wandering minstrel.

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    From Santiniketan the father and son left for western Himalayas, visiting several places on the way, their longest halt being Amritsar, a city sacred to the Sikhs.

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    In Santiniketan too he wrote another magnificent poem addressed to Ahalya, the legendary victim of divine intrigue who had been turned into stone by her husband' s curse.

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    Returning to Santiniketan he wrote a prose- drama Natir Puja( Worship of the Dancing Girl), based on an old Buddhist legend which he had earlier used in a poem.

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    He would have liked nothing better than to breathe his last at Santiniketan, surrounded by those he loved best, men and women, children and the trees, his very own, as it were.

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    Many years later when he was working out his educational experiments in Santiniketan, he founded a parallel institution adjacent to the educational colony and named it Sriniketana nucleus for experiments in rural community development.

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    Andrews who was the link between the two great men had suggested that the boys might be accommodated in Santiniketan until Gandhi came and made his own arrangements for an asrama of his own.

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    The idea had germinated in his mind since his last tour of Japan and the United States and he made his first public announcement of it at a special gathering in Santiniketan on 22 December 1918.

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    In an address to his students at Santiniketan he emphasised that as the sins of fathers are visited on children, so all humanity must share the guilt and its punishment for whatever crimes are committed by man anywhere.

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    It was while he was in Santiniketan that the news came on 13 November of the award of the Nobel Prize for his Gitanjali The news was received with no small surprise and much rejoicing all over the country.

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    Although Gandhi stayed for hardly a week in Santiniketan and had not yet become the Mahatma whose mere name was to cast a spell in later years, he left a permanent impress of his personality on the inmates of Santiniketan.

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    After a pleasant halt in Saigon, then French Indo- China, where he was warmly received, Tagore returned to India in July in time to welcome with songs, as he used to sayj the rain- laden clouds over the Santiniketan sky.

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    One would imagine that after this long and hectic tour during which his health had broken down more than once, the poet would have been content to enjoy the seclusion and peace of Santiniketan for which he had longed so much.

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    Christ' s Faithful Apostle, was how an Indian admirer had interpreted the initials of his name, C. F. A. Being what he was, his presence was needed in many places, in India and outside, far away from Santiniketan and Tagore' s presence.

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    Soon after the performances, which were followed by a lecture on Chhanda( Prosody) at the Calcutta University, Tagore left for Bombay with a party of Santiniketan students and artists to participate in a Tagore Week organised there by his admirers led by the poetess Sarqjini Naidu?

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    After two more public addresses of importance, one to the Bengali Literary Conference, the other to the Parliament of Religions held in Calcutta to mark the birth centenary of the Indian saint, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Tagore inaugurated at Santiniketan the Cheena Bhavan( Department of Sino- Indian Studies), the first of its kind in India and still a leading centre of Chinese studies in the country.

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