President Droupadi Murmu being accorded a Guard of Honour upon her arrival in Kolkata, on Monday. Soon after her arrival for a two-day visit to West Bengal, President Murmu visited Subhash Chandra Bose's residence the Netaji Bhavan in the southern part of the city to pay homage to the national hero. From there she visited Rabindranath Tagore's residence at Jorasanko Thakurbari in central Kolkata and paid tributes to the Nobel Laureate
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President Murmu at Jorasanko Thakurbari, the ancestral house of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. President Murmu said she was deeply touched after visiting Tagore's ancestral house in north Kolkata. Murmu went around the rooms where Tagore was born, where he breathed his last and where he spent most of his time in and expressed awe over the preservation of the centuries-old structure, Registrar Subir Moitra of Rabindra Bharati University, which is housed on the premises, said. RBU authorities gave her four publications of Tagore and a photograph of his. Murmu, who was accompanied by Governor C V Ananda Bose, was greeted at the Jorasanko Thakurbari by state ministers Bratya Basu and Sashi Panja
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President Murmu with West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose and grand nephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Sumantra Bose, near the historic Wanderer car in which Sisir Kumar Bose drove his uncle Subhas Chandra Bose from Calcutta to Gomah in 1941, popularly known as the 'Great Escape'. President Murmu paid tribute to Netaji during a visit to Netaji Bhawan, in Kolkata on Monday. The president went to Netaji's study, his bedroom and 'The Great Escape staircase' which Netaji had used to come downstairs where his nephew Sisir Bose had parked the Wanderer for him to escape
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