Santiniketan, the home of late Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage sites list, the world body announced on Sunday.
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00:00 Santi Niketan, the home of late Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, has been added to the
00:11 UNESCO World Heritage Site list, the World Body announced on Sunday.
00:18 The Indian Express had reported in February that Viswabharti University was set to become
00:24 the first living university, which is functioning to get the Heritage Tag from UNESCO.
00:33 The Trinamool Congress hailed the town as a testament to the profound cultural and intellectual
00:38 contributions of Tagore.
00:42 The name of the beautiful and culturally rich town literally means the "adobe of peace".
00:47 Named after local decoit Bhuban, it was earlier called Bhuban Danga.
00:52 Bordering Bolpur city in the Brahmam district of West Bengal, it was established by Maharshi
00:59 Dibendranath Tagore, father of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
01:05 Later, Rabindranath Tagore envisioned it as a university town and established a school.
01:13 It was called Brahmacharya Ashram and was later expanded into the Viswabharti University.
01:22 The recommendation to add the site to the UNESCO World Heritage List was announced by
01:27 the Union Minister G. Krishnan Reddy in May.
01:30 It said in a tweet, "Great news for India on the jayanti of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
01:36 Shantiniketan in West Bengal has been recommended for the inscription to the World Heritage
01:42 List by ECOMOS, the advisory body to UNESCO World Heritage Centre."
02:12 "The UNESCO World Heritage Site has been recognized in India.
02:19 We thank the Culture Minister and the Prime Minister for their efforts.
02:28 I would also like to thank UNESCO for the opportunity to bring Rabindranath Tagore's
02:48 work to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
03:08 International Council of Monuments and Sites, ECOMOS, is a France-based international body
03:13 dedicated to the conservation and enhancement of global architectural and heritage.
03:20 West Bengal also has another gem in UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity,
03:27 the Durga Puja in Kolkata.
03:30 I will request, I will invite all of you, if you can spare some time, you must visit
03:36 West Bengal also sometimes.
03:39 And this Durga Puja has become the world intangible heritage.
03:44 UNESCO has already declared.
03:47 And also this year, the UNESCO declared Bengal is the West Bengal destination for tourism.
03:57 And today also declared a great son of this soil, Rabindranath Tagore, his house will
04:02 be world heritage.
04:04 So whatever we think, our cultural domain is very powerful.
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