It is a matter of great pleasure that INTACH Santiniketan Chapter has been successful in publishing the documentation of the heritage sites around Santiniketan, in West Bengal. The book will help give the much needed visibility to these heritage sites and thereby generate concern amongst out people for their restoration and future preservation.
Santiniketan enjoys a special position in West Bengal. This small university town is a centre for art and culture and attracts students and tourist not only from other states of India, but from other parts of the world as well. Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to Bengal’s heritage has been very significant. Tagore was a leading spokesperson of compassional humanism and culture of not only India but the world as well. His deep and pervasive sense of the ‘universal’ in thought and culture is reflected in his brainchild: Santiniketan. The unique identity of Santiniketan’s architectural heritage is a reflection of the Poet’s need to reconcile the values of ‘universal’ and ‘diversity’.
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