Shantiniketan, Tagore's Karmabhoomi

Shantiniketan - peace home, Tagore's Karmabhoomi - Tagore's work place

Dec 22nd, 1901, Rabindranath Tagore (first nobel laureate of India) established Shantiniketan, 212kms north of Kolkata in Bolpur. It was his dream to provide open air, gurukul like atmosphere to the students instead of class room within four walls for studies. He named the University as Vishva Bharati, a place of Universal