Jorasankho Thakur Bari(House of the Tagores), in Jorasankho, north of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the ancestral home of the Tagore family, now being used as the campus of Rabindra Bharati University, located at 6/4 Dwarkanath Tagore Lane, Jorasankho, Kolkata 700007. It is the house where the famous poet and the first non-European Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was born and spent most of his childhood.
It was built in the 18th century on the land donated by the rich jamiddar
Sett family of
burrabazar to Prince
Dwarkanath Tagore (
Rabindranath Tagore's grandfather)
Rabindranath Tagore was born here on 7th of may in 1861, in the colonial Calcutta under the brutal British regime and breathed his last on 7th of August in 1941. The already famed and prosperous Tagore family, could not think of more from a toddler than his achievement in writing the excellent pieces of writings from such an early age. Almost during the same year the pillar of English thoughts although through disguise, namely Calcutta University, established under the British Authority at a time when civilized Indians just started to understand and lent towards the English way of Education, Tagore, started to grow as a citizen under that Anglo-Indian atmosphere, but surely among the intellectual, rich guardians and pedigrees of his era. After writing thousands of articles, hundreds of prose and poetry and many editorials on different journals, he achieved the national as well as the global fame, and one gracious day in November of 1913 that passion and sheer intelligence helped him won the Nobel prize in literature.
Now used as a museum, Jorasankho Thakurbari never loses the charm Tagore has attached in it.It showcases rare pictures and works of Tagore family members, especially of Rabindranath Tagore. Even after more than 200 years of its construction, Thakur Bari continues to impress and attract the curious intellectuals from all corners of the globe.
After witnessing so many events, personalities, and history, this premises needs to be pushed as one of the best tourism structures of India that not only offers historical insights but also the enigmatic charisma that once Tagore cherished right in its backyard.
As a storyteller of the past and pride maker of the future, this marvelous palace has to go a long way along with its shadow that Tagore still carries with him chanting the verses of his famous 'Gitanjali'...
“Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali: Song Offerings
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