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By Rittick Mondal: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the ideals and thoughts of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore are relevant in present day India when narrow-mindedness has crept into politics, which is not in sync with Tagore’s principles.
While addressing a programme at the Science City Auditorium in Kolkata on the occasion of Tagore’s 162nd birth anniversary, Amit Shah said, “The National Education Policy (NEP) formulated by the BJP government at the Centre that advocates providing education in the mother tongue, is inspired by the poet’s ideas.”
“The ideas of Kaviguru are still relevant in present-day India. The kind of narrow-mindedness that has crept in politics is not in sync with Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s thought and vision in regard to politics, social life and patriotism,” he said while addressing the event.
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The event was organized by a socio-cultural body named Khola Hawa, which is based in West Bengal.
Eulogising Tagore for building a world-class education institute Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan, Shah said the idea of it can be a guiding light for the education system not only in the country, but also the world.
“I have twice visited Santiniketan. I have read a lot about it. The idea of Santiniketan can be replicated not only in India but also across the world. There can be no better example of reviving ancient education with modern techniques. Rabindranath Tagore brought in a new idea of education which is relevant even today,” he said.
Amit Shah also inaugurated a fulldome film ‘Luminaries of Bengal’ at the Science City Auditorium on Tuesday and a son-et-lumiere show and exhibition on Abanindranath Tagore at the famed Victoria Memorial Hall.
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