Rabindranath Tagore statue missing from Dhaka University campus, restored

A statue of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, installed by students on the Dhaka University campus last week, has been partially reinstalled by the authorities after it went missing. According to news agency UNB, on 14 February, students of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University erected a statue of Tagore with its mouth taped and holding a copy of ‘Gitanjali’ with a nail stuck in it. Was.

The news said that the symbolic statue was installed near the Raju Memorial sculpture on the campus to protest censorship on the university campus. According to UNB, the statue went missing on February 16, whose severed head was found around 2 km from the university campus. The news said that on Sunday the statue was installed at the same place with only the head but the tape was removed.

Shimul Kumbhkar, president of a faction of the Dhaka University students’ union involved in making the statue, told UNB, “Dhaka University’s proctor removed the statue at night and cut it into two parts. We collected the broken parts from Suhrawardy Udyan and reinstalled it.” Responding to the student union leader’s remarks, the university’s proctor told UNB, “We didn’t break the statue, we just put it on. transferred from there. What they are doing is in complete violation of university rules.” Earlier, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported that protests broke out on the campus after the statue went missing.

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