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	Santiniketan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was made famous by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, whose vision became what is now a university town (Visva-Bharati University) that attracts thousands of visitors each year.
		Gurudev started Patha Bhavana, the school of his ideals, the central premise being that learning in a natural environment would be more enjoyable and fruitful rather than a chore.
		Although Visva-Bharati University continues to play an active role, Santiniketan has become a haven for the nouveau riche of India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santiniketan (630 words)

	Amartya_Sen
		He currently serves as one of Harvard University's eighteen elite university professors who are technically not members of any academic department and therefore report directly to the University's president.
		Sen was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, the University town established by the poet Rabindranath Tagore, another Indian Nobel Prize winner.
		He has taught economics at University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University, Delhi, Oxford, London School of Economics, Harvard and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1997 and 2004.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amartya_sen.html (1157 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 70 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On March 25, security staff of Uttarayan, Tagore's home inside Visva Bharati University in Shantiniketan town, discovered that at least 50 of his memorabilia, including the Nobel gold medal he won in 1913, were missing.
		Dilip Sinha, the previous vice chancellor of the university, was arrested for passing off as genuine fake certificates of a teacher at the university.
		University authorities have asked the Sweden-based Nobel award's committee for a replica of the medal.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/08/05/d40805140392.htm (292 words)

	India Travelogue Leisure & Heritage Travel: Shantiniketan, Vishwa Baharati, Rabindranath Tagore by Pallavi Bhattacharya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Later it was renamed Visva Bharati, it’s symbolic meaning being defined by Tagore as “where the world makes a home in a nest”.
		Visva Bharati is now more than a hundred years old, one of the most prestigious universities of India with degree courses in humanities, social science, science, fine arts, music, performing arts, education, agricultural science and rural reconstruction.
		Visva Bharati in fact has degree courses in modern Indian, European, Asian languages and classical languages.
	www.indiatravelogue.com /leis/heri/heri10.html (1304 words)

	All’s not well at Rabindranath tagore’s dream university
		The world may have met at the Visva Bharati University at Santiniketan, but one thing’s sure: this reputed institute set up to see education in a different way is in the news for all the wrong reasons.
		The death of Mrinmoy Mukherjee, a post-graduate student of history in Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan in January end this year due to alleged medical negligence is only the latest signpost on a downhill road.
		The university is steeped in dirty politics among students and teachers and between students and teachers.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20010225/ian24012.html (1042 words)

	Tagore's Nobel medal stolen -DAWN - International; 26 March, 2004
		The medal and other belongings of Tagore had vanished when the museum at Visva Bharati University in Shanti Niketan, 200 kilometres north of Calcutta, reopened on Thursday after a two-day break, police said.
		He founded the Visva Bharati University in 1901 in a bid to connect learning with nature.
		Visva Bharati spokesman Amitava Chowdhury said the university was taking stock of its Tagore collection and had indefinitely closed the museum to visitors.
	www.dawn.com /2004/03/26/int9.htm (180 words)

	Calcutta-on-net News, February 27, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Visva Bharati University will confer its Honorary Degree of Desikottama for the years '97 and '98 to 10 eminent personalities of India on Sunday.
		February 26: Visva Bharati University will confer its Honorary Degree of Desikottama for the years '97 and '98 to 10 eminent personalities of India on Sunday.
		Meanwhile, former Prime Minister and the chancellor of the university, Prof IK Gujral has arrived in Santiniketan along with his wife Sheela Gujral to participate in the annual convocation.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Feb00/27Feb00.html (5599 words)

	Shanti Niketan1
		In the eight decades of its existence, the Art School at Shantiniketan's Visva Bharati University has been synonymous with giants of Indian modern art.
		The Visva Bharati University at Shantiniketan [Abode of Peace] was founded by Rabindranath Tagore in 1921 - as a spiritual and intellectual haven - a catalyst for the synthesis of Asian and western thought, "… a conduit between Asia's past and present, so that the ancient learning might be rejuvenated through contact with modern thinking."
		The idea of Visva Bharati University at Shantiniketan was far ahead of its time.
	www.the-south-asian.com /July-Aug2000/Art_in_Shantiniketan1.htm (425 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Rabindranath Tagore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Today this institution is known as Visva Bharati University(বিশ্বভারতী, 'India in the World"), a Central University under the Government of India.
		Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the universal being; truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind.
		The infant is born in the same universe where lives the adult of ripe mind.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Rabindranath_Tagore (9479 words)

	Rabindranath Tagore on education - Kathleen M. O'Connell
		Such an opportunity has given me confidence in the power of education which is one with life and only which can give us real freedom, the highest that is claimed for man, his freedom of moral communion in the human world....
		As an alternative to the existing forms of education, he started a small school at Santiniketan in 1901 that developed into a university and rural reconstruction centre, where he tried to develop an alternative model of education that stemmed from his own learning experiences.
		Such an approach emphasized the innovations that had been made in integrating individuals of diverse backgrounds into a larger framework, and in devising the economic policies which emphasized social justice and narrowed the gap between rich and poor.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/tagore.htm (2158 words)

	Visva Bharati suspends classes indefinitely
		The university has also asked the students to vacate the hostels by 5 pm on Sunday.
		In spite of the university’s request to the agitating students for holding talks, an official said that no representative turned up from the Chhatra Parishad (CP), which had called the strike.
		A university source divulged an interesting angle to the situation: “The girl students have decided to take out an apolitical procession on Sunday, demanding that classes be resumed.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=150175 (385 words)

	outlookindia.com \| wired
		Sinha remanded to PC, Mukti Deb to JC Former Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University Dilip Sinha, in police custody since his arrest on June 24 on the 'fake marksheet' case, was today remanded by a local court to further police custody till July nine after rejecting his bail petition.
		Lecturer in the Mathematics Department Mukti Deb, arrested along with Sinha and in police custody, was sent to judicial remand till July 21 by Subdivisional Judicial Magistrate Debashis Halder, after her prayer for bail was turned down.
		Sinha and Deb had been arrested on June 24 from their residences in Kolkata in connection with the lecturer's alleged illegal appointment on the basis of fake certificates attested by the former VC in Visva-Bharati University seven years ago.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=233581 (434 words)

	Dalai Lama lauds Tibetan dept - www.phayul.com
		The Dalai Lama is in Calcutta to attend a seminar on Buddhist studies organized by the Visva Bharati University's Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies.
		He was in the city on Monday to attend the inaugural function of the golden jubilee celebrations of the department of Indo-Tibetan Studies of the Visva Bharati University.
		Vice chancellor of VBU, Sujit Basu announced that the university will soon start an Asian Studies Centre, section for which preliminary talks with the UGC are over.
	www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=5501&t=1 (446 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kolkata
		The seat of nine public universities, and numerous colleges, including at least four medical colleges, Kolkata still enjoys a prominent position in education, though it has slipped in national indexes in the recent past.
		Other public universities or institutions which operate in Kolkata or conduct courses in affiliated colleges or institutes are IIT Kharagpur, Visva Bharati University, Vidyasagar University, University of Kalyani, Aligarh Muslim University, Himachal Pradesh University, Madurai Kamaraj University, IGNOU and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
		Salauddin and wife Neena, who were first team to race across the world in their 'Contessa Classic' 1989 car in 1993 and in a Nissan jeep in 1998; in the shortest possible time, a record acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kolkata (1956 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
		For he created in Santiniketan and Visva Bharati University a sanctuary of freedom and promised its students freedom from fear and fanaticism, from the ugliness of heart and mind.
		The poet believed that the ancient Indian culture developed not in the city but in the serene surroundings of the forest where deep thoughts rose spontaneously.
		Primary classes that were started in 1901 and soon a school was set up, it became a college and full-fledged university —the Visva Bharati University.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031116/spectrum/main5.htm (1083 words)

	The Course
		The course is recognised by the renowned Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.
		Justice V.S. Malimath, also the Chairman of the Review Committee of the University Grants Commission for their syllabus on Human Rights, is the convener of this review committee.
		D.K Sinha, Vice Chancellor, Visva Bharati (Central University), Santiniketan were the Guests of Honour.
	www.rlek.org /course.html (1455 words)

	EX-VC of Visva-Bharati University arrested
		A former vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, from where Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize medal was stolen, has been arrested for involvement in a fake certificates racket.
		Police investigating the theft of Tagore's Nobel medal and other memorabilia on March 25 came across evidence that several appointments were made on the basis of fake certificates during Sinha's tenure.
		Lakhs (if not millions) of rogues got government jobs with fake certificates since independence in Hyderabad (considered to be the fake certificates' capital of India),...
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/jun/25viswa.htm (172 words)

	Visva Bharati University in Bangladesh
		The proposed 'Visva Bharati'University to be established in Kishoreganj (Bajitpur), Bangladesh (eastern part of Bengal Basin) will open a new chapter in the Bengal Basin's cultural history.
		Rash Bihari Ghosh, Chairman of IIBB firmly believed that Visva Bharati University should have been established in Bangladesh at least 50 years ago.
		It was a great blunder not to have a Tagore University in Bangladesh immediately after independence of Bangaldesh.
	www.nvo.com /ghosh_research/customhtml1 (338 words)

	Former Visva Bharati staffer under scanner - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The CID which had earlier arrested former registrar of the Visva Bharati University in connection with the probe, found the manuscript in his possession.
		The academician, whom the CID has declined to identify, has been associated with the university for a decade.
		The sleuths feel that an organised racket in the university might be involved in the sensational theft of Nobel medallion and other artifacts in March last.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may162004/n1.asp (272 words)

	Visva-Bharati : At A Glance
		was declared to be a central university and an institution of national importance by an act
		Visva-Bharati has the President of India as the Paridarsaka (Visitor) and the Governor of West Bengal as the Pradhana (Rector).
		This memorial museum and research centre for Tagore's Studies is the focal point of the university : archives, library, museum, audio visual and reprographic unit, preservation unit, multimedia unit.
	www.visva-bharati.ac.in /at_a_glance/at_a_glance.htm (128 words)

	INDOlink - India General News - Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize Stolen From Bengal Museum
		A watch and a bangle along with important citations belonging to the poet, kept in the showcase of the museum at the Uttarayan complex, were also found missing, he added.
		In the daring burglary at the Uttarayan complex of Visva Bharati University in Shantiniketan, the burglars seemed to have sneaked into the museum breaking open the window railings, state IGP (Law and Order) Chayan Mukherjee here said adding that some people including the guards were detained in this connection for interrogation.
		Terming the incident as 'dangerous', the Chief Minister said that he talked to Visva Bharati Vice-Chancellor Sujit Basu and senior police officers over phone to enquire about the theft.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=032504020453 (340 words)

	Ms
		M.A. Geography (remote sensing and terrain evaluation in environmental geomorphology), Visva Bharati University, India (1991)
		Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, August 2001- present; Affiliated faculty, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of South Florida.
		Suri and Its Environs: A case study in environmental geomorphology, M.A. Thesis, Visva Bharati University.
	www.cas.usf.edu /geography/faculty/dixon.htm (1222 words)

	Seminars and Workshops related to INC-ICOM.
		The workshop is jointly organised by INC-ICOM with Rabindra Bhavana, Nandan Museum and Museum of Department of Archaeology and Ancient Indian History, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.
		On 25 MAR 2006 - the workshop shall be held from 3.30 p.m.
		Professor Sujit Kumar Basu, Upacharya, Visva-Bharati University shall inaugurate the workshop.
	www.inc-icom.org /s_workshops.html (1034 words)

	Bengali Music and Indian Classical Music - Rhyme Records
		ubinoy Roy, a Science graduate from Calcutta University and a Rabindrasangeet graduate from Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan (India) has received individualized training from the Nobel laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore himself.
		He has published "Rabindrasangeet Sadhana", a recommended text at Visva-Bharati University, Rabindra Bharati University and numerous affiliated Tagore institutions in India.
		He is a member of the "Experts Committee" at Visva-Bharati Music Board in Calcutta, that approves Rabindrasangeet prior to market release and a member of the Central Audition Board for All India Radio - New Delhi.
	www.rhymerecords.com /ArtistBio.aspx?BioOf=Subinoy (223 words)

	Resources: Suggested Reading
		Mayhew, K.C. and Edwards, A.C. The Dewey School: The Laboratory school of the University of Chicago 1896-1903.
		(This is the journal of Visva-Bharati, the university established by Tagore in Malanca, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.)
		They became partners in order to overcome social exclusion and radically change the inhuman conditions in which very poor people lived, as well as the practice and policies that lead to these conditions.
	www.brc21.org /resources/res_reading.html (4917 words)

	Forthcoming Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Department of Physics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731 235, India
		Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731 235, India
		It is shown that the usual Hamilton's variational principle supplemented by the methodology of the integer-programming problem can be used to construct expressions for the Lagrangian densities of higher KdV fields.
	www.edpsciences.org /articles/epjd/forth/abstracts/talukdar.html (104 words)

	Subho Basu History Dept-Maxwell School
		College of St Mark and St John (affiliated to the University of Exeter), England.
		Center of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.
		Research project grant by the College of St Mark and St John (affiliated to the University of Exeter), England.
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /hist/basu.htm (375 words)

	Barnali Dixon
		M.A. Geography (GIS, remote sensing and fuzzy logic in soil erosion modeling), University of Arkansas (1995)
		Awarded numerous travel awards by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville to attend conferences.
		Scott, University Professor, Dept. of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science, Univ.
	www.cas.usf.edu /geography/faculty/dixonold.htm (1300 words)

	December 5, 2002
		On stamp only the reverse swastikas are visible due to the portrait of Santidev Ghose being superimposed on it.
		The Emeritious Profesor of Visva-Bharati University, K G Subrahmanium, recalled Ghose's commitment to Tagore and Visva-Bharati throughout his life.
		Suchitra Mitra, one of the illustrious disciples of Santidev Ghose, rendered the widely known song of Tagore "Ekla Chalo Re" on this occasion that she had learnt from the master when she was a student at Santiniketan.
	www.stampsofindia.com /newssite/newspost/094.htm (1640 words)

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