{"id":260610,"date":"2023-09-18T20:33:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=260610"},"modified":"2024-06-16T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T08:51:07","slug":"tagores-home-santiniketan-added-to-unesco-world-heritage-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tagores-home-santiniketan-added-to-unesco-world-heritage-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagore\u2019s home Santiniketan added to UNESCO World Heritage List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>Tagore\u2019s home Santiniketan added to UNESCO World Heritage List\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express on 18th September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santiniketan, the home of late Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage sites list.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Santiniketan?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santiniketan is a town located in West Bengal\u2019s Birbhum district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The name of the city literally means the \u2018abode of peace\u2019.It was named after a local dacoit Bhuban and was earlier called \u2018Bhubandanga\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Established by<\/strong>: It was originally an ashram built by Debendranath Tagore (father of Rabindranath Tagore) where anyone, irrespective of caste and creed, could come and spend time meditating on the one Supreme God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 Later, Rabindranath Tagore envisioned it as a university town and established a school.It was called Brahmachary Ashram, and was later expanded into the Visva-Bharati University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Distinct from the prevailing British colonial architectural orientations of the early 20th century and of European modernism, Santiniketan represents approaches toward a pan-Asian modernity, drawing on ancient, medieval and folk traditions from across the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santiniketan is also adorned with splendid sculptures, frescoes, murals, and paintings created by renowned artists such as Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose (one of the pioneers of modern Indian art) and Ramkinkar Baij (master sculptor and painter) among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan is Bengal\u2019s only central university.The Prime Minister is the chancellor of the varsity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some other recent additions-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A) <\/strong>Dholavira-Gujrat-2021<\/p>\n<p>B) Ramappa Temple-Telangana-2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTagore\u2019s home Santiniketan added to UNESCO World Heritage List\u201d\u00a0 published in Indian Express on 18th September 2023 What is the News? Santiniketan, the home of late Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage sites list. What is Santiniketan? Santiniketan is a town&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tagores-home-santiniketan-added-to-unesco-world-heritage-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tagore\u2019s home Santiniketan added to UNESCO World Heritage List<\/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":[1566,11212,9],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-260610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260610","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=260610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}