Rabindra Bharati University is a public research

university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

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. It was founded on 8 May 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...

. It is located at the

Tagore family The Tagore family ( ) has been one of the leading families of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and is regarded as one of the key influencers during the Bengali Renaissance. The family has produced several people who have contributed substantially ...

home,

Jorasanko Thakur Bari Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Bengali language, Bengali: ''House of the Thakur (Indian title), Thakurs''; anglicised to ''Tagore'') is a Haveli in Jorasanko, North Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is the bir ...

. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in

Performing Arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which involve the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. P ...

and

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under the Faculty of Fine Arts,

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and other subjects under the Faculty of Arts. The current interim Vice-Chancellor of the university is Subhro Kamal Mukherjee, former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court.

Tagore museum

The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the

. The first non-European Nobel laureate

was born here.

Notable Students

Researcher

* Methil Devika, Indian Classical Dancer and Senior Research associate at

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Academic

* John Felix Raj, Indian Professor and Principal.

Dance

* Chitresh Das, Indian Classical Dancer. * Benazir Salam, Indian classical Dancer from Bangladesh

Painter

* Subhaprasanna, Indian Painter.

Musicians

* Anup Ghoshal, Indian Playback singer. *

Ajoy Chakrabarty Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 25 December 1952) is a Hindustani classical vocalist, composer, lyricist and an exponent of the Patiala-Kasur gharana. He was awarded with the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India in 2020 and ...

, Indian Vocalist, Composer and Lyricist. * Banani Ghosh, Indian Vocalist *

Madhushree Madhushree (born Sujata Bhattacharya, 2 November 1969) is an Indian playback singer who sings in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Telugu films. A familiar voice in A. R. Rahman's compositions, Madhushree hails from a musically inclined fam ...

, Indian Playback Singer. * Priyanka Gope, Bangladeshi Playback Singer. * Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Indian Vocalist. * Shanti Thatal, Indian Nepali Languages Music Composer and Playback Singer. * Subhamita Banerjee, Indian Vocalist, Composer and Lyricist.

Writer

* Moniruddin Khan, Indian Writer and essayist. * Kalipada Soren, Santhali playwright, author and editor.

Film

* Anirban Bhattacharya, Indian Actor, singer, Screenplay Writer, Filmmaker. * Aparajita Ghosh Das, Indian Actress. * Basabdatta Chatterjee, Indian Actress. *

Darshana Banik Darshana Banik is an Indian model and actress who works for the Bengali (Both Indian and Bangladesh), Hindi and Telugu Film industry. She started her career as a model and brand ambassador for different brands like Colors, Vodafone, PC Chand ...

, Indian Model and Actress. * Shirin Guha, Indian actress. * Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian Actor and Filmmaker. * Wahida Mollick Jolly, Bangladeshi Actress.

Others

* Deepa Dasmunsi, Member of Parliament for West Bengal and President of the Delhi Women Football association.

Notable Faculty

* Manoj Mitra

References

External links

Rabindra Bharati University Website
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