Santiniketan

Proper noun

Santiniketan

1. A town near Bolpur in Birbhum district, West Bengal, in eastern India.
   • Japanese interaction with Santiniketan dates back to the year 1902 with the arrival of the above-mentioned Shitoku Hori. Subsequently, in 1905, Jinnosuke Sano, an ex-student of Keio University, arrived in Santiniketan. He was the jujutsu teacher. It is known that during his three years of stay at...2010, P.A. George, editor, Japanese Studies: Changing Global Profile, New Delhi: Northern Book Centre, →ISBN, page 259
   • [A]nd one reason why young Satyajit decided to cut short his study at Santiniketan was his growing sense of the place being ‘an isolated island’ and his desire to go back to Calcutta ‘in order to keep abreast of things’. One of the things he had missed in the esoteric surroundings of Santiniketan...2010, Sharmistha Gooptu, Bengali Cinema: ‘An Other Nation’, Routledge, →ISBN, page 144