Rabindra Bharati University is a public research

university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United Stat ...

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

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. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...

in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

. It is located at the Tagore family home, Jorasanko Thakur Bari. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in

Performing Arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perfo ...

and

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under the Faculty of Fine Arts,

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and other subjects under the Faculty of Arts. The current Vice-Chancellor of the university is Professor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, a noted social scientist and political commentator.

History

Inside view of Rabindra Bharati University campus

Tagore museum

The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. The first non-European Nobel laureate

was born here.

Notable alumni

* Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor and independent filmmaker. * Basabdatta Chatterjee, Indian Actress * Ajoy Chakrabarty, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist
Sanjit Chakraborty
Indian Philosopher in the Analytic tradition. *

Choyon Islam Choyon Islam (born 16 November 1961) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad The Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ, lit=National Parliament, translit=Jatiyô Sôngsôd), often referred to sim ...

, member of the Parliament * Anirban Bhattacharya, Indian film actor * Chitresh Das, classical dancer * Swagatalakshmi Das Bengali musician * Anup Ghoshal, Indian playback singer and composer * Sunil Kothari, Indian dance historian, scholar and critic * John Felix Raj, Vice-Chancellor * Madhushree, Indian playback singer *

Deepa Dasmunsi Deepa Dasmunsi is an Indian politician. She served as the member of parliament for Raiganj in the 15th Lok Sabha. She was the Minister of State for Urban Development from October 2012 until May 2014. She was the wife of Indian National Congress ...

, the Union Minister of State for Urban Development * Kherwal Soren, Santhali playwright and editor. * Moniruddin Khan, writer *

Subhaprasanna Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee is an Indian artist, born in Kolkata in 1947. He graduated from the Indian College of Arts ( Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata) in 1969. He was an active member of the Calcutta Painters group. He is married to a ...

, Indian painter *

Moinul Hassan Moinul Hassan is a politician from All India Trinamool Congress and was a member of CPIM State Committee. He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament ...

, Member of the parliament of India * Niranjan Goswami, Indian mime artist and stage director, founder of Indian Mime Theatre, * Soumitra Sekhar Dey, Bengali linguist, educationist *

Neena Prasad Neena Prasad is an Indian dancer. She is an exponent in the field of Mohiniyattam. She is the founder and principal of Bharthanjali Academy of Indian Dances in Thiruvananthapuram and Sougandika Centre for Mohinyattam in Chennai. Early life and ...

, Indian dancer, founder and principal of Bharthanjali Academy of Indian Dances/ * Kaberi Bhaumik, Singer, President of Stuti Art & Entertainment

References

External links

Rabindra Bharati University Website
{{authority control Universities in Kolkata Art schools in India Educational institutions established in 1962 Memorials to Rabindranath Tagore 1962 establishments in West Bengal Universities established in the 1960s

History

Tagore museum

Notable alumni

See also

References

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