Santiniketan Bolpur | West Bengal |
"Rabindranath Tagore's Eternal Abode"
Shantiniketan
is a neighbourhood of Bolpur city in Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in
West Bengal, India, approximately 165 km north of Kolkata. Known
to few, mainly as Rabindranath Tagore's home and now a university, Santiniketan
is a small town located in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. The town comprises mainly of Visva Bharati University. The
University was set up by Rabindranath Tagore's father and later popularized by
him to radically change the concept of education in India. Today, this
beautifully laid out university and small sleepy town has acquired the status
of a unique tourist haven, where lines of knowledge and aesthetic brilliance
merge.
Best Time To Visit
Poush
Mela
Poush
Mela is the occasion when Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, along with twelve
others, adopted the Brahmo. The Mela is the remembrance of this very day on the
7th Day of the Poush month. The fair is a perfect example of the amalgamation
of different culture and traditions. Performances by students of Santiniketan
are what lie in store for you if you happen to visit the place in December. The famous Poush Mela is organised in the city of
Shantiniketan, which is a small town in the Birbhum district of the Indian
state of West Bengal. The precise location of the fair was the ground opposite
to the Brahma temple in Shantiniketan in the initial years of its celebration.
However, now it occurs in the field in Purbapalli.
