Santiniketan
"Santiniketan is India."
This high tribute was paid to Tagore not by an insignificant human being, but by the father of the Nation, Gandhi-ji. And our Prime Minister7
went the length of saying that “he who has not visited Santiniketan has not seen India.”
Although many have worked and many will continue to work for Santiniketan, we can safely say that Santiniketan is a one-man University. Viswabharati is surely an invitation to the remotest corner of the world. It is a cheerful sacrifice to attain to the all-fulfilling truth of mankind. Now let us quote Tagore:
"It has been my steadfast endeavour, that the boys of my Santiniketan school should acquire a true vision of the history of humanity as a whole, broad and untainted with our race-hatred.
Modern Review December 1917"
Modern Review December 1917"
RTM 65,1. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was Prime Minister at the time.↩
Sri Chinmoy, Rabindranath Tagore: the moon of Bengal’s Heart, Agni Press, 2011
