Sushil Das, a dhaki from Sukbazar village near Bolpur had an invitation to go to the USA, but could not accept it because of his lack of knowledge of English.
Bolpur |
Barakar is well connected by private run long distance bus services to places like Durgapur, Bardhaman, Katwa, Memari, Kalyani, Krishnanagar, Bankura, Suri, Sainthia, Bolpur,Jangipur in Murshidabad district, Mogra, Arambag, Purulia, and Ranchi.
Towards the west is famous Nanoor (birthplace of Chandidas), Bolpur-Santiniketan (home of Visva Bharati University founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and of Amartya Sen).
She donated three works of art to India, two of which can be found on public display: the woodcarving "Satyagraha" in the National Gandhi Museum in New Delhi and a stained glass plaque depicting a poem in Sanskrit by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, which is in the Tagore Museum at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, Bolpur, West Bengal, India.