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. -- A. B.
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