: Why Rabindranath Tagore instituted Asian and European cultural studies at Visva-Bharati university #IndiaNEWS What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.To

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Why Rabindranath Tagore instituted Asian and European cultural studies at Visva-Bharati university #IndiaNEWS
What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.To the world, Visva-Bharati is Tagore’s university, but the institution’s name has no obvious link to his – and for a reason. Juliet’s view of the matter was not Rabindranath Tagore’s; for him the name Visva-Bharati was the crystallisation of an ideal – a world centre of learning in India.It was almost certainly a conception and name that had struck him as both Indian and global during a period of crisis – the First World War. “Visva-Bharati� was not just apposite, it precisely expressed an ideal of learning for which Rabindranath wanted material and institutional shape. It alluded to the relationship between visva, the world, and Bharat, the country. Visva-Bharati epitomised his vision of a specifically Indian institution of learning which might contain within itself the magnitude of the world’s intellectual and creative aspirations. No other name could smell as sweet.There are other institutions of learning more closely connected with the poet’s name. The Rabindra Bharati University, for example – which could be roughly rendered Tagore University – was a tribute paid to Rabindranath on the occasion of his birth centenary celebrations in 1961. It was set up in his ancestral...Read more

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