Book Extract | A Homage to Shantiniketan Ashram and Its Legendary Gurus
An excerpt from Gaura Pant Shivani âs book Amader Shantiniketan .
Shantiniketan Ashram. Photo: Soumen Ray/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (Penguin Random House India, 2021), translated into English by Ira Pande.
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Gurudev was very fond of outdoor celebrations. A full moon, especially in spring, when the Ashram was awash with a silvery light, was like a personal invitation from Mother Nature to us Ashramites. A notice would come round that we should all assemble at a particular spot in the Ashram that night. And lo and behold, all of us would bolt down an early dinner and head there to see what new treat awaited us. Among the assembly would be our maid, Khudu, and the kitchen boy, Nagendra, his dark, lithe body almost gleaming in that light.
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With eye on 2021 Bengal polls, Amit Shah visits Visva Bharati University, holds roadshow in Bolpur
Union Home Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah is on a two-day visit to West Bengal which will head for assembly elections in April-May 2021. December 20, 2020 / 03:39 PM IST
File image of Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah at the December 19 rally in West Bengal (Image: Twitter/@AmitShah)
Union Home Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah held a roadshow in Bolpur, West Bengal. Shah is on a two-day visit to Bengal, which will head for Legislative Assembly elections in April-May 2021.
Ahead Of His Roadshow In Bolpur, Amit Shah Visits Visva-Bharati
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is also scheduled to hold a meeting with vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and members of the faculty.
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Shah is scheduled to visit the Upasana Griha (prayer house) and Sangeet Bhavan, where students of the university would render Rabindra Sangeet in a cultural programme, sources said.
Shah, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, paid floral tributes to Gurudev Tagore at Rabindra Bhavan on the university campus, they said.
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To reach out to Bengali intellectuals and shed the “outsider” tag, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday spent over two hours at the Visva-Bharati University (VBU) in Santiniketan to pay homage to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
Santiniketan, a neighbourhood of Bolpur, was founded and developed by members of the Tagore family. Tagore had set up Visva-Bharati (now Visva-Bharati University) in 1921.