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Visit to Santiniketan

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                                                      Santiniketan Santiniketan  is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal.                  It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, and later expanded by his son Rabindranath Tagore whose vision became what is now a university town, Visva-Bharati University.            Shantiniketan has become a major tourist spot because of its association with Rabindranath Tagore, one of India's and Bengal’s greatest figures.                Rabindranath Tagore started Patha Bhavan the school of his ideals.                  After he received the Noble Prize (1913), the school was expa...