game of enlightenment
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Rabindranath Tagore the greatest tragic product and producer of Bengal Renaissance-socio-cultural-political-educational reform and revival, was celebrating his 150 th birth anniversary last year. As tribute to the master, these brand-new games are surfaced on images of his eventful life, his vision of community life and education in Santiniketan as a inspiration of a nation. Santiniketan stands as a failure of Tagore's vision of socio-economic-cultural reconstruction of a specially designed community, based on exchange of idea and knowledge, integration of art, technology and education with life. Today the gentrified Santiniketan ashram adopted the popular urban kitsch with time, co-inhabit with fossilized ideals, heritage institutions and Santiniketani bags, isolating itself from the surrounding. Tagore himself becomes as an iconized, branded, marketized, hegemonious cultural figure and a propaganda ambassador for state institutions, commodified in national and international stages.TRANSCRIPT
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