In a great joy for India, Santiniketan, the home of Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore, has been included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Notably, India had been striving for long to get a UNESCO tag for Santiniketan, where poet Rabindra Nath Tagore built Visva-Bharati over a century ago.
In a great joy for India, Santiniketan, the home of Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore, has been included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Notably, India had been striving for long to get a UNESCO tag for Santiniketan, where poet Rabindra Nath Tagore built Visva-Bharati over a century ago.
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New inscription on the @UNESCO #WorldHeritage List: Santiniketan, #India 🇮🇳. Congratulations! 👏👏
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Santiniketan, established in 1901 by poet and philosopher Tagore, is located in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. Santiniketan was a residential school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions and a vision of the unity of humanity transcending religious and cultural boundaries.
