Bengal CM writes to PM Modi on vandalisation of Rabindranath Tagore's house in Bangladesh; urges for talks to ensure justice
Jun 12, 2025
"I am writing to express my deepest anguish over the incident of vandalisation of a historic ancestral house of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in Siraj, Bangladesh, Tagore frequented the place repeatedly in his lifetime, and many of his finest works were conceived or written while he was there. The poet's creativity was intertwined with his association with his ancestral estate to theirs in an intimate manner. What has been vandalised is not a mere house, but a towering fountain of creativity in our subcontinent," read CM Banerjee's letter.