KUTHIBARI

Kuthibari is one of the residences of the Tagore family, where the famous Bangladeshi poet Rabindranath Tagore composed part of his poems, essays and news. The poet settled there for ten years from 1890, at the death of his father, to manage the family zamindar. It is also here that he began translating his Gitanjali into English, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The Tagore family lost its estate to a bank that resold it to the Roy family. When the government abolished the zamindars system in 1950, the house fell into the hands of the nation. It is now managed by the Department of Archaeology, which has transformed the house into a museum.

The white residence of three floors stands in the midst of a pleasant garden, ideal for a picnic. Inside, personal objects and photos set the life of Rabindranath Tagore.