CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Historian and Tagore biographer Uma Das Gupta was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Oxford. Her post-doctoral research has been on Rabindranath Tagore and the history of the educational institutions he founded at Santiniketan and Sriniketan, 1901–1941.

Detailed explanation-2: -Historian Uma Das Gupta has come up with her new book “A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural Construction". It is published under Niyogi Book’s ‘Paper Missile’ imprint.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shantiniketan was founded and developed by members of the Tagore family. It was founded by Debendranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore wrote many of his literary classics at Santiniketan. His son, Rathindranath Tagore was one of the first five students at the Brahmacharya asrama at Santiniketan.

Detailed explanation-4: -The programme aimed at socio-economic as well as moral rehabilitation of rural community. As part of the rural development programme, monkeys and malaria was eradicated in first phase. Later on, new strategy of agriculture, new breeds of cows, poultry and village crafts were introduced.