Strengthening the cultural connect with neighbouring Bangladesh, the Viswa Bharati University at Santiniketan in West Bengal is in talks to set up an exclusive centre at the campus, an official said recently.
After centres were established by the governments of Japan and China at the campus, the varsity officials are chalking out plans for a proposed Bangladesh Bhabhan
following a visit from Bangladesh government officials this week.
The varsity, located in the sylvan surroundings of
Santiniketan, was founded by poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Between 1890 and 1901 the bard spent a part of his life managing his family estate in
Shelaidaha Kuthi Bari (country house), in Kushtia, which is now in Bangladesh.
