Cheena Bhavan and the Building of a New Human Civilization | Nandita Chaturvedi

Cheena Bhavan in Shantiniketan has the rare quality of being an institution that is both historic and futuristic. It is futuristic not because of buildings of glass and metal, or an endowment, but because of the content of its project, its students and members and the vision of Rabindranath Tagore and Tan Yun Shan that forms its foundation. Cheena Bhavana is one of the oldest Bhavanas on the campus, and was established a year before even Hindi Bhavana. Founded by the work of Tan Yun Shan in 1937, it stands today as a testament to the far-sightedness of Rabindranath Tagore