In the year 1922, on this day, Rabindranath Tagore established
Sriniketan - the rural centre for folk
culture and cultivation of rural activities, near Shantiniketan.
Today, 6 February, to mark the foundation day, the festival of folk
culture organised at Sriniketan, where tribal dancers of rural Bengal
performed beautiful dance programmes. Moreover, stalls decorated with
rural handicrafts and functions of folk culture are the other
attractions of Sriniketan Utsav.
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Sriniketan - the rural centre for folk
culture and cultivation of rural activities, near Shantiniketan.
Today, 6 February, to mark the foundation day, the festival of folk
culture organised at Sriniketan, where tribal dancers of rural Bengal
performed beautiful dance programmes. Moreover, stalls decorated with
rural handicrafts and functions of folk culture are the other
attractions of Sriniketan Utsav.
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A. B.
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