{"id":225453,"date":"2023-02-07T19:17:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=225453"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:38:04","slug":"unesco-to-soon-declare-visva-bharati-worlds-first-living-heritage-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unesco-to-soon-declare-visva-bharati-worlds-first-living-heritage-university\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO to soon declare Visva-Bharati world\u2019s first living heritage university"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cUNESCO to soon declare Visva-Bharati world\u2019s first living heritage university\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on <b>7th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visva-Bharati University will soon get the \u2018heritage\u2019 tag from UNESCO to take the distinction of world\u2019s first living heritage university.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Visva-Bharati University?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visva-Bharati is a public research central university and an Institution of National Importance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was founded in 1921 by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until Independence, it was a college and the institution was given the status of Central University in 1951 through a central Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its first vice-chancellor was Rathindranath Tagore, the son of Rabindranath Tagore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabindranath believed in open-air education and introduced that system at the university, which prevails to date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1922, Visva-Bharati was inaugurated as a Centre for Culture with exploration into the arts, language, humanities and music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Architecture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The structures in this institute constitute a myriad of architectural expressions which are as diverse as the Kalo Bari, a mud structure with coal tar finish and sculpture panels.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cUNESCO to soon declare Visva-Bharati world\u2019s first living heritage university\u201d published in Indian Express on 7th February 2023. What is the News? Visva-Bharati University will soon get the \u2018heritage\u2019 tag from UNESCO to take the distinction of world\u2019s first living heritage university. What is Visva-Bharati University? Visva-Bharati&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unesco-to-soon-declare-visva-bharati-worlds-first-living-heritage-university\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNESCO to soon declare Visva-Bharati world\u2019s first living heritage university<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-225453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701491276},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}