The glass walled Mandir

Shantiniketan – The Peaceful Abode

Shantiniketan literally means a peaceful abode but is more popular as a destination, as an institute, as a campus for recreation, as a place of social welfare, as a place beauty within nature. It is famed for the great polymath and the first non-European Nobel Laureate Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore who spent a considerable amount of his life in Shantiniketan. He founded the Vishwa Bharati University and propagated the concept of open-air education in Shantiniketan.

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