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KOLKATA: An organisation of the teachers of Visva-Bharati on Wednesday alleged that its Vice-Chancellor Prof Bidyut Chakraborty made baseless comments against economist Amartya Sen that the Nobel laureate urged him to stop hawker eviction drive from near his Santiniketan residence and introduced himself as a Bharat Ratna during the phone call.
Sudipta Bhattacharya, president of the Visva-Bharati Faculty Association, told PTI that Sen s faculty assistant at Harvard University, Chie Ri, sent a mail to him on behalf of the economist stating that he does not recall having any such conversation with the VC in recent times.
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BOLPUR: Visva-Bharati University formally announced on Saturday the cancellation of this year’s Pous Mela, the fair on the university grounds that is extremely popular among locals as well as visitors to the university town.
The university will, however, go ahead with Pous Utsav, which marks the foundation of Visva-Bharati by Rabindranath Tagore a century ago. The PM, who is the chancellor of the university, has been invited to virtually attend the ceremony along with West Bengal’s governor and chief minister.
The university court had in an online meeting on November 10 decided not to organise this year’s Pous Mela due to the pandemic but had agreed to hold the traditional Pous Utsav with Covid protocols in place.