House of Rabindranath Tagore

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Tagore visited Shillong on three occasions. He stayed at Brookside in Rilbong in 1919 in an Assam-type building which was subsequently taken over by the Meghalaya art and culture department. The building at Brookside christened Rabindranath Tagore Art Gallery is still preserved by the department. The government chose Brookside as the venue for organising Tagore Utsav and building a life-size statue of the bard. During his stay at Jeet Bhoomi in Rilbong in 1923, Tagore wrote the drama Raktakarabi (Red Oleanders) and a poem Shillong Er Chithi (Letters from Shillong). The third visit of Tagore was in 1938. During the visit, he put up at Sidli House on Upland Road, Laitumkhrah, that once belonged to Maharani Manjula Devi.

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Location: Jeet Bhumi, Rilbong, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
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