Word: santiniketan
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...born in Santiniketan, India, in 1933. His mother, Amita Sen, was a top student with Rabindranath Tagore, the great educator and cultural leader. His father, Ashutosh Sen, taught chemistry at Dahak University, in what is now the capital of Bangladesh...
...Through his mother--who has come from India to Harvard at the age of 87 to hear Sen speak--and also through his own studies, Sen became acquainted to the interconnected cultural and academic mission in Santiniketan...
Sorry for the Animals. Daughter of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, she was educated at India's Santiniketan University, in Switzerland and England. As the Maharajah of Jaipur's third wife (the first two are dead), she is a celebrated figure at international spas, loves polo, shot 27 tigers before she retired from the sport because "I feel sorry for the animals." Now, as candidate, she neglects her custom of riding out in a monogrammed white Jaguar at 7 a.m. to exercise her husband's 18 polo ponies, spends the time instead writing campaign speeches and running...
...went to Indian schools, and the girls threw away their bobby-sox for flowing local costumes. Cynthia, aged 16, did public-health work with Indian nursing students and spent her vacations in Indian villages. When Bowles was recalled, she stayed behind to finish her first-year studies at the Santiniketan Indian college...
Prominent villagers in the hamlet of Balaton-fured, Hungary, puzzled last week over an intense, anxious cablegram signed by Poet-Sage Sir Rabindranath Tagore of Santiniketan, Bengal, India. When they had made out what was wanted the villagers went out and examined a sapling. "It is shedding its leaves," they cabled back to Tagore, "but its sap is healthy and its life seems assured." Four years ago the sapling was planted as a "Hope Tree" by the Sage. He is supposed to believe that the planter of such a tree will live for at least five years after the planting...
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