Santiniketan/Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina will address the convocation at the Visva-Bharati University and hold bilateral talks there on May 25. The two leaders will also inaugurate the Bangladesh Bhavan at the university.

Hasina will arrive in Kolkata on the morning of May 25 and leave for Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, about 160km from the state capital. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will also attend the programme at the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore.

Modi, the chancellor of the university, will inaugurate the Bangladesh Bhavan with Hasina and hold a bilateral meeting there.

After the events in Santiniketan, Hasina is scheduled to leave for Kolkata, where she is likely to visit Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Tagore’s ancestral home in north Kolkata, an official said.

On May 26, Hasina will visit Kazi Nazrul University in Asansol in West Burdwan district where she will be conferred with an honorary D.Lit.

Banerjee will be the chief guest at the convocation in the university.

On her return to Kolkata, Hasina is likely to visit Netaji Bhavan, the ancestral home of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, in south Kolkata.

In Kolkata she is likely to visit both Jorasanko Thakur Bari and Netaji Bhavan. She will return to Dhaka on the evening of May 26.

The Bangladesh Bhavan at Santiniketan will house a library, a state-of-the-art archival centre and a seminar hall, besides a sprawling space for cultural get-togethers.

Apart from the literary works of Tagore, the centre will also showcase books and photographs on the Bangladesh Liberation War and India’s role in it.