Bangladesh Bhavan inaugurated at Vishwa Bharti University in Santiniketan

• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina inaugurated Bangladesh Bhawan at Vishwa Bharti University in Santiniketan, West Bengal.
• Bangladesh Bhaban in Santiniketan will house museum and library. It has been divided into four zones.
• Zone I is dedicated to pre-historic period of undivided Bengal.
• Zone II includes chronicle phases of the language movement,
• Zone III is dedicated to 1971 India-Pakistan (Bangladesh Liberation) War.
• Zone IV will educate visitors about Rabindra in Bangladesh.

Visva Bharati University

• Visva Bharati is public central university located in Santiniketan, West Bengal. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore on 23 December 1921 who called it Visva-Bharati, which means communion of the world with India.
• Until independence it was a college but after independence, it was given status of university and was renamed Visva-Bharati University in 1951. Prime Minister of India is Chancellor of the University.
• Some of its renowned alumni includes Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, globally renowned lmmaker Satyajit Ray and leading art historian, R. Siva Kumar.
• It is West Bengal’s only central university.

By: Ziyaur Rahman