Amartya Sen (PTI)
NEW DELHI: Visva-Bharati has written to the West Bengal government alleging that dozens of its plots have been recorded wrongly in favour of private parties with the list of unauthorised occupants prepared by the varsity including Nobel laureate and eminent economist Prof Amartya Sen.
The girls’ hostel, academic department, office, even the VC’s official bungalow find mention in the list of plots recorded incorrectly. The university alleges that due to wrong recording of ownership in the government’s record-of-right (RoR), the university’s land has been illegally transferred and private parties have set up restaurants, schools and other businesses on land procured by Rabindranath Tagore himself.
No Poush Mela This Year, Bengal Govt Okays Cultural Fest to Keep Tagore s Spirit Alive
The three-day winter festival in Shantiniketan is closely associated with Tagore s legacy and generates income for traders, craftspeople and folk artistes.
File image of the Poush Mela in Shantiniketan in an earlier year. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Kolkata: The Visva Bharati University authorities’ decision to scrap the 125-year-old Poush Mela festival in Shantiniketan in view of the pandemic this year â while political gatherings and rallies continue in the same town â has invited reactions ranging from petitions to parallel festivals.
Poush (also spelled ‘Pous’) Mela is the annual winter fair that takes place in December at Shantiniketan, transforming the town of Bolpur into a hub of cultural and commercial exchange for a brief time.
To shed outsider tag, Shah visits Santiniketan, eats at artiste house
During his November visit to the state, he had lunch at the residence of a tribal BJP worker in Bankura district and the house of a Matua community member in North 24 Parganas district. December 21, 2020 4:00:10 am
Home Minister Amit Shah at Basudeb Das Baul’s house at Syambati village on Sunday. (PTI)
To reach out to Bengali intellectuals and shed the “outsider” tag, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday spent over two hours at the Visva-Bharati University (VBU) in Santiniketan to pay homage to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
Santiniketan, a neighbourhood of Bolpur, was founded and developed by members of the Tagore family. Tagore had set up Visva-Bharati (now Visva-Bharati University) in 1921.
University has accused VBUFA president of interacting with the media without approval
Kolkata
Visva-Bharati appears to be contemplating action against a vocal teachers’ body that recently brought to light a controversial claim made by its Vice-Chancellor about a call he supposedly received from Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.
During a virtual meeting with faculty members on December 9, Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty openly claimed that he had received a call from Prof. Sen, who introduced himself as “Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen” and requested that hawkers around his Santiniketan house not be evicted as his daughter, who visited Santiniketan often, would be inconvenienced.
Following this, Visva-Bharati University Faculty Association (VBUFA) president Sudipta Bhattacharyya had emailed Prof. Sen, who denied making any such call or request to the Vice-Chancellor.
Amartya Sen A Selfish Person? Visva Bharati VC’s Remark Sparks Row
Amartya Sen denies Visva Bharati VC’s claim that he had urged him not to evict hawkers near his ancestral home. PTI Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 2020-12-16T18:47:36+05:30 Amartya Sen A Selfish Person? Visva Bharati VC’s Remark Sparks Row outlookindia.com 2020-12-17T09:14:26+05:30
Did Visva Bharati (VB) Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty try to influence faculty members using an imaginary conversation with Amartya Sen? This question is doing the rounds after the surfacing of a letter in which Sen, an economics Nobel laureate and VB alma mater, denied having any conversation with Chakraborty on that subject.