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Calling Tagore 'outsider' playing with identity politics: Thinkers

New Delhi, Aug 27(UNI) If it is ugly for vice-chancellors and chief ministers to squabble over 'who belongs and who does not', dragging in Rabindranath Tagore to score a point is as bad as it can get.
Observing this here on Thursday, a host of educationists, including intellectuals, opined that vice-chancellor of Viswa Bharati University, Bidyut Chakraborty has now claimed that "Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore was an outsider himself", as were "his colleagues" because "all came from outside Bolpur".
"There must be a gallery of admirers for Chakraborty's shocking declaration. And, that cannot include the Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had last week, described the vice-chancellor as an 'outsider', a apropos of a 'provocative' move by the University to fence the famous Fair Ground - 'Melar Math' - where the noted annual 'Poush Mela' is held," the educationists said.
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