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5 unusual facts about Visva-Bharati University


Anupam Hazra

A Masters in Social Work from Visva-Bharati University, Anupam Hazra has been associated with the non profit sector since 2005.

Panchanan Mohanty

Born and brought up in a village in the Indian state of Orissa, Mohanty studied both literature (at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India), and linguistics at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Visva-Bharati University

The library also has a number of important collections, including those of Abanindranath Tagore, Prabodh Chandra Bagchi, Pramatha Choudhuri, Humayun Kabir, Sati Kumar Chattopadhyay, Lila Ray, Ashok Rudra, and Panchanan Mandal.

Walter Liebenthal

Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, Senior research Fellow 1952-54, Visiting Professor of Sino-Indian Studies 1955-59

In 1952 he left Peking and moved to the Visva-Bharati University of Santiniketan in India, founded by Bengali writer, Rabindranath Tagore, first as a Senior Research Fellow, and later as professor and director of the Department of Sino-Indian Studies until he became emeritus in 1959.


Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

After high school, she received her B.A. in Philosophy from Visva Bharati University, her M.A. in Religion from McMaster University in Canada, and her Ph.D. in Buddhism from Magadh University in India.

Krittivasi Ramayan

Extant manuscripts are presently stored in universities such as the University of Calcutta, Visva-Bharati University, Rabindra Bharati University, Jadavpur University, University of Burdwan, North Bengal University, in West Bengal.

Siyaram Tiwari

After teaching in several colleges of Bihar, Siyaram Tiwari joined Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (West Bengal), an institution founded by Nodel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and now a central university as a Reader in the Department of Hindi in January, 1976.In due course, he rose to the rank of Professor and became Head of the Department of Hindi as well as Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.

Sri Palee College

Inspired by Guru Dev Rabindranath Tagore a great writer, artist and an educationist of India, and his famous university at Shanthi Niketan later called Visva Bharathi University, Mr. Wilmot A. Perera, a prominent revolutionary educationist and a politician of Sri Lanka, decided to establish a similar institution in Ceylon, and invited Gurudev Tagore to lay the foundation stone for this institution, which Tagore named Sri Palee (place where the goddess of fine arts lives).


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