Santiniketan

Students, parents scuffle at Visva-Bharati University over offline tests

March 22, 2022 5:08 am

Offline exams could not be held on Monday after a section of students protesting against the move entered into an altercation with the parents of some students who were willing to appear in the exams.

To shed outsider tag, Shah visits Santiniketan, eats at artiste house

December 21, 2020 3:48 am

During his November visit to the state, he had lunch at the residence of a tribal BJP worker in Bankura district and the house of a Matua community member in North 24 Parganas district.

From Santiniketan to Peking University: Artist’s decades-old paintings trace India-China links

November 26, 2019 7:45 am

With 2020 marking the 70th year of diplomatic ties between India and China, 20 of Chang’s 60 paintings from his time in India are on display at PKU’s library.

An exhibition shares how the visually challenged pioneer of modern Indian art, Benode Behari Mukherjee saw the world

February 18, 2019 8:06 am

An exhibition to mark Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary focuses on works created in his later years

May 30, 2018 9:59 am

For Rabindranath Tagore, a man known to have given India one of its most prestigious art institutions, Santiniketan, it is only befitting that an exhibition celebrating his works has a bust of him designed by a student from the very institution.

A Pale View of Hills

September 04, 2017 12:15 am

After years of neglect, a proposal is made for the restoration of KG Subramanyan’s iconic installations at Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti

V-C’s gherao withdrawn, Registrar says ‘even militants better than these students’

February 09, 2015 12:33 am

The steering committee of the students and teachers, however, remained persistent with their demand for the V-C’s resignation.

Explained: No peace in Santiniketan

February 04, 2015 1:08 am

SABYASACHI BANDOPADHYAY explains why students and teachers are angry at Santiniketan.

Visva-Bharati stir turns ugly, salaries stopped

February 02, 2015 12:00 am

Body of professors to get FIR lodged against V-C today

Morals in Murals

May 22, 2013 1:53 am

DURING his tutelage under Nandalal Bose in Santiniketan during the 1940s,KG Subramanyan learned one of his first big lessons in art: it is a reaction to his surroundings as much as it is a mode of personal expression.