{"id":10817,"date":"2023-05-11T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:21:36","slug":"viswa-bharati-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/viswa-bharati-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Viswa Bharati University"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Viswa Bharati University:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of India&#8217;s major <strong>Central Government funded autonomous University<\/strong>located in <strong>Santiniketan, West Bengal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is well-known as a <strong>distinguished centre for Visual Arts practice<\/strong> and research in India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The University was <strong>established in 1921 by Nobel Prize Laureate Rabindranath Tagore<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>named after Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore<\/strong> <strong>until the Visva-Bharati Society was registered as an organisation in May 1922<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The institution was given the <strong>status of a Central University in 1951 through a central Act<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>first vice-chancellor was Rathindranath Tagore<\/strong>, the son of Rabindranath Tagore, and the <strong>second vice-chancellor was the grandfather of<\/strong> another Nobel Laureate economist <strong>Amartya Sen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>President of India appoints the Vice-chancellor of the University.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Visva Bharati University is <strong>renowned for its cultural festivals called Poush Mela<\/strong> and the <strong>Basanta Utsab<\/strong>, which attract a number of artisans from all across the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who was Rabindranath Tagore?<\/h3>\n<p>Rabindranath Tagore was a world-renowned poet, litterateur, philosopher and Asia\u2019s first Nobel laureate.He was popularly known as Bard of Bengal, and people used to call him Gurudev.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lawbeat.in\/news-updates\/calcutta-high-court-stays-visva-bharati-eviction-order-amartya-sen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Calcutta High Court Stays Visva-Bharati&#8217;s Eviction Order To Amartya Sen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viswa Bharati University was established in 1921 by Nobel Prize Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}