https://thecoducer.com/tags/west-bengal/Recent content in West-Bengal on Mayukh DattaHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 Mayukh DattaWed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://thecoducer.com/2021/04/going-offbeat-in-santiniketan/Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://thecoducer.com/2021/04/going-offbeat-in-santiniketan/<p>Santiniketan is a place that never gets old. I went there for the first time in 2017 and again in March 2021, I made my second trip to the land established by Debendranath Tagore, father of the Rabindranath Tagore, and where Gurudev Rabindranath founded his dream project – the Visva-Bharati University.</p> <p>It was his father who had come to Bolpur and built a guest house and named it Santiniketan. Gradually the name was used to denote the entire area. In 1901, the visionary man, Rabindranath Tagore, came here and settled down. He then started a school for children, <em>Brahmacharyaashrama</em>, which is now known as Patha Bhavan. It expanded and finally grew into Visva-Bharati University in 1921.</p>