Question: The book titled “A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural Construction” is authored by whom?
(a) Uma Das Gupta
(b) Rajiv Bhatia
(c) Priyam Gandhi Mody
(d) Kiran Bedi
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:
- The book titled “A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural Construction” was authored by Uma Das Gupta.
- It is published under Niyogi Books ‘Paper Missile’ released.
- The book contains Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s work in ‘village reconstruction’ by setting up ‘Sriniketan’, a wing of his VisvaBharati International University at Santiniketan in 1922, which is also popularly known as a university town.
- According to the publishers, the book explores Tagore’s attempt to inspire the deprived sections of rural society to self-reliance and to make them economically independent.
BY: AMIT GUPTA