Visva-Bharati VC apologises for 'Tagore was an outsider in Shantiniketan' remark

https://ift.tt/2Zv3ZtQUnder fire from various quarters for his comment that Rabindranath Tagore was "an outsider" in Shantiniketan, Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Prof Bidyut Chakraborty on Friday apologised for the comment but insisted that it was misinterpreted. Tagore had founded Visva-Bharati in 1921 and it became a central university in 1951.

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