Planning Guide

Overview

• •Santiniketan or Shantiniketan is a university town in central West Bengal, where students of different backgrounds study in open air, under the canopy of a tree.
• •It is deeply associated with the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore who developed the town.
• •It is considered the manifestation of a utopian ideal of a community that became a crucible for intellectual and artistic ideas that were to have a decisive impact on 20th-century art, literature, poetry, music and architecture in South Asia.