POUSH MELA
- December 14, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject : Culture
Context: The annual “PoushMela”, a heritage cultural event attracting lakhs of travellers to West Bengal’s Santiniketan(visvabharati university) , will not be held this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, an official said.
Concept :
- The 120-year-old fair and festival (PoushMela) isorganised for 3 to 4 days every year generally at the december end.
- In its history it has been disrupted only twice – in 1943 due to the famine and in 1945 due to the second world war.
- PoushMela takes place in Santiniketan, in Birbhum District in the Indian state of West Bengal, marking the harvest season.
- The central university’s executive council (EC) on Friday decided to scrap the fair, which attracts over two lakh visitors.
Visva-Bharati University
- Visva-Bharati University is a public research central university and an Institution of National Importance located in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.
- It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India.
- Until independence it was a college.