The Pandemic and the Poet: The Renewed Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore May 10, 2021, 2:32 PM IST
Dr Suparna Banerjee is a researcher, college teacher, and media writer based in Bengal. She has been contributing articles and reviews to leading national dailies since 2012.
Her book Science, Gender and History: The Fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood was published by Cambridge Scholars in late 2014 and has since been widely reviewed.
Her interests include gender dynamics, democratic state politics in the Indian context, and canonical Anglo-American literature. She currently teaches English at Krishnath College, Berhampore, West Bengal. LESS. MORE
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New Delhi: Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed the Convocation Ceremony of Visva-Bharati University today through a video conference. Governor of West Bengal and Rector of Visva-Bharati, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar, Union Education Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Union MoS for Education Shri Sanjay Dhotre were also present on the occasion.
The Prime Minister while addressing the convocation quoted the poem of Gurudev Ravindra Nath Tagore on Veer Shivaji which inspired him and called for unity of India. PM stressed that the students and the faculty were not just a part of a university, but also bearers of a vibrant tradition. He said Gurudev named the University as Visva Bharati meaning Global University since he expected that anyone who comes to learn in Visva Bharati will see the whole world from the point of view of India and Indianness. So he made Visva Bharati such a place to learn, which can be seen in the rich heritage of India. He gave a call for assimilat