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Santiniketan: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Friday visited the campus of the Visva-Bharati University here to inaugurate the renovated 'Shyamali' building - a mud house often used by Rabindranath Tagore as his summer retreat. "Felt honoured and emotional to visit the renovated 'Shyamali', the place where Gurudev RabindranathTagore lived and where Mahatma Gandhi also stayed and his detailed discussions on various issues. The Uttarayan complex at the central university comprises four more houses other than 'Shyamali' with a well-laid out garden in front. Tagore used to live in these houses in turns. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited the university last year along with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee..