Santiniketan

English

Alternative forms

• Shantiniketan

Etymology

Transliteration of Bengali শান্তিনিকেতন (śantiniketon).

Proper noun

Santiniketan

1. A neighborhood of Bolpur, Birbhum district, in eastern India.
   • 2010, P.A. George, editor, Japanese Studies: Changing Global Profile, New Delhi: Northern Book Centre, →ISBN, page 259:

     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 Santiniketan, while teaching jujutsu, he also taught Japanese language.

   • 2010, Sharmistha Gooptu, Bengali Cinema: ‘An Other Nation’, Routledge, →ISBN, page 144:

     [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 was the film-going experience he so loved: ‘to relax in the coolness of a cinema, and lose myself in the make-believe world of Hollywood.’