Shyamoli

(Vice President’s Secretariat)

 

WHAT

Vice President of India calls on the government and civil society to work together to preserve India’s rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

• Archaeological Survey of India gets applauds for restoring ‘Shyamoli’, the heritage house of Rabindranath Tagore.

 

SHYAMOLI

• Shyamoli is an experimental mud-house built at Santiniketan in 1935.
• The house has been recently renovated by the Archaeological Survey of India as a deposit work and is a property of Visva-Bharati at present.

 

SANTINIKETAN

• Located about 158 km northwest of Kolkata in Bengal’s rural hinterland, Santiniketan embodies Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of a place of learning.
• It was was originally an ashram built by Debendranath Tagore (father of Rabindranath), where anyone, irrespective of caste and creed, could come and spend time meditating on the one Supreme God.
• Established in 1863 with the aim of helping education go beyond the confines of the classroom, Santiniketan grew into the Visva Bharati University in 1921, attracting some of the most creative minds in the country.

 

Source: PIB

 

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