Sustaining attainments of a community are as important as that of a university which helps them to survive and proceed for advancement. Tagore, the founder of Visva-Bharati and creator of Rural Reconstruction vision was to put stress on creativity and discovering own perspective to be driven in intellectual and mundane affairs. He was not keen on the Western way of looking at things of our country and wanted to find out Indian perspective through education and experimentation not bound in alien idioms. This attitude was also maintained by him when it came to uplifting the rural population in and around Santiniketan. Self-sustenance and self-reliance are central in his thoughts. Tagore always nurtured the idea that members of a community need to help each other to sustain and improve life. His founding of Sriniketan experiment in 1921-22 in the Surul and making surrounding villages prosper through cooperation based on own strength in skill, culture and social bonding with Rur...