Santiniketan-A Place of Peace

Many of us must have heard about Shantiniketan,the place of the great Nobel Laureate and Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore.

It is recognised as one of India's most prestigious centres for higher education, the small university town of Santiniketan is situated about 180 km north of Kolkata. It primarily came into prominence when the Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, founded the university, known as Visva Bharati, here in 1921.
Apart from Visva Bharati the Bengal Institute of Technology and Management (BITM) is also located in Santiniketan - a place you wouldn't readily associate with an engineering college.
Shantiniketan is a tourist attraction also because Rabindranath lived here and penned many of his literary classics (namely Tagore songs, poems, novels etc.) and his home is a place of historical importance.
From Calcutta Shantiniketan is 136 kms:So whoever planning for a small vacation nearby Kolkata can obviously plan for it this time.I hope you will enjoy the peace and beauty up there...
I am attaching a old black and white picture of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore.

Thanks
Madhumita