In pics: Santiniketan, Kolkata & Krishnanagar celebrate Rabindra Jayanti with flowers, Rabindrasangeet, dance & recitation

Students and artistes perform at Rabindranath Tagore’s 163rd birth anniversary celebrations at Madhabi Bitan in Birbhum’s Santiniketan

The flower-bedecked statue of Rabindranath Tagore on the lawn of Jorasanko Thakurbari on Wednesday

Visitors pay respects to the bard in his bedroom at Jorasanko Thakurbari

Women admire a Tagore painting at the mela outside the gates of Rabindra Bharati University campus at Jorasanko Thakurbari on Wednesday

Artistes perform Rabindrasangeet at a programme organised by Rabindra Bharati University authorities

Rabindranath Tagore’s doppelganger holds a photograph of the bard at the mela outside Thakurbari

Visitors check out a replica of a boat at the Thakurbari museum on Wednesday

Jorasanko Thakurbari museum had many visitors on the special occasion

The long verandahs at Jorasanko Thakurbari with the white cast iron railings provide the perfect backdrop for photography among youngsters

A vibrant handicraft mela takes place outside the gates of Jorasanko Thakurbari on Ponchise Baisakh every year

Women take selfies and groupfies with the statue of Rabindranath Tagore at Jorasanko Thakurbari

Two young women fold their hands to garlanded photographs of Tagore at Thakurbari

Rabindranath Tagore’s birthday celebrations on a boat over the Hooghly at Prinsep Ghat on Wednesday.

Students of Nava Nalanda Group of Schools perform at Nazrul Mancha on Rabindra Jayanti

Rabindrasangeet exponent Iman Chakraborty performed at the Nava Nalanda event

Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Biman Banerjee offers floral tributes to Rabindranath Tagore at the Vidhan Sabha

Another doppelganger of Tagore pays respect to the bard on Wednesday

Youngsters at Krishnanagar in Nadia district get ready and perform during the Nobel laureate’s 163rd birth anniversary celebrations

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee pays tribute to Rabindranath Tagore at Rabindra Sadan on Wednesday

A cultural programme is progress at Rabindra Sadan on Wednesday