47 Notable alumni of
Jadavpur University
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Jadavpur University is 1110th in the world, 233rd in Asia, and 26th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 47 notable alumni from Jadavpur University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Swastika Mukherjee
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- actor
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Swastika Mukherjee is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bengali and Hindi films and television. She is the daughter of actor Santu Mukhopadhyay. Throughout her career, she received various accolades including four Filmfare Awards East (including a record of three wins and five nominations for Best Actress), one WBFJA, one Anandalok Award and one Kalakar Award.
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Moon Moon Sen
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- actorpolitician
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Moon Moon Sen, also credited as Moonmoon Sen, is an Indian actress, known for her works in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Marathi films. She eventually starred in Bollywood films. She has appeared in 60 films and 40 television series. She has received Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1987, for her role in the film Sirivennela.
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Parambrata Chatterjee
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- actorfilm director
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Parambrata Chattopadhyay is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted as the fictional character Topshe from Feluda under Sandip Ray's direction. His notable works include Bhalo Theko (2003), Baishe Srabon (2011), Sold (2014), Kadambari (2017), Anukul (2017), Pari (2018), Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi (2019), Dwitiyo Purush(2020), Bulbbul (2020) and Doctor Bakshi (2023). He made his Hindi debut in Kahaani (2012), starring with Vidya Balan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
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M. N. Roy
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- politicianrevolutionaryfreedom fighterwriterphilosopher
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Manabendra Nath Roy was a 20th-century Indian revolutionary, philosopher, radical activist and political theorist. Roy was the founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India (Tashkent group).
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Rituparno Ghosh
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- screenwriterwriterfilm directoractor
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Rituparno Ghosh was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist. After pursuing a degree in economics, he started his career as a creative artist at an advertising agency. He received recognition for his second feature film Unishe April which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. Having won 19 National Awards, along with his contemporaries Aparna Sen and Goutam Ghose, Rituparno heralded contemporary Bengali cinema to greater heights. Ghosh died on 30 May 2013 in Kolkata after a heart attack. Ghosh was also one of the openly homosexual personalities in Indian cinema.
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Arundhati Bhattacharya
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- banker
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Arundhati Bhattacharya is the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer for Salesforce, India. She is also retired Indian banker and former Chairperson of the State Bank of India. She is the first woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India. In 2016, she was listed as the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She is the only Indian corporate leader listed on Fortune's world's greatest leaders list ranked at 26.
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Payel Sarkar
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- politicianactortelevision actor
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Payel Sarkar is an Indian actress who has appeared in Bengali films and Hindi television. On 25 February 2021, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Anupam Roy
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- singerlyricistsongwriter
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Anupam Roy is an Indian Bengali singer-songwriter, music director, composer, writer, guitarist, playback singer, engineer from Kolkata, India. He made his debut with Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao & Benche Thakar Gaan, which appeared on the soundtrack of the 2010 Bengali film Autograph. Since then, he has gone on to compose, write lyrics and sing for many Bengali films.
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Bidita Bag
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- modelactor
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Bidita Bag is an Indian actress and model. She is mostly known for her inclination towards socio-political films.
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen
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- writerpoetacademic
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen was an Indian writer and academic. After studying arts and comparative literature, she moved to the United States where she studied further. She returned to India and taught at several universities and institutes as well as serving in various positions in literary institutes. She published more than 80 books in Bengali: poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, personal essays, travelogues, humour writing, translations and children's literature. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2000 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999.
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Churni Ganguly
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India - Occupations
- film directoractortelevision actor
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Churni Ganguly is an Indian actress and director who mainly works in Bengali movies and television productions. She received the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards in 2005 in the best actress category for the movie Waarish, in which she played a single-mother's role. She won two National Film Awards for her directorial ventures Nirbashito and Tarikh.
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Abhijit Mukherjee
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- politician
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Abhijit Mukherjee is an Indian politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) from the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Shiboprosad Mukherjee
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm produceractor
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Shiboprosad Mukherjee is an Indian film director, writer and actor. With Nandita Roy as his co-director, he made his directorial debut with the film Icche, which garnered critical acclaim and commercial success. The director duo is known for making socially relevant films. They have also directed new age Bengali films like Praktan, Bela Seshe, Muktodhara, Accident, Alik Sukh and Ramdhanu, Haami, Konntho, Gotro which were critically acclaimed and enjoyed commercial success. He also serves as a partner at Windows Production. His film Praktan, bagged multiple National Awards and Alik Sukh was premiered at the Marche du Film section in Cannes Film Festival in 2013. His film Konttho was selected as the Indian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards but did not final Submission from India.
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Onir
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- 1969-.. (age 56)
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producerfilm editor
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Onir is an Indian film and TV director, editor, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film My Brother…Nikhil, based on the life of Dominic d'Souza, was one of the first mainstream Hindi films to deal with AIDS and same-sex relationships.
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Mohammed Salim
- Enrolled in Jadavpur University
- Graduated with Master of Arts in philosophy
- Occupations
- politician
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Mohammed Salim is an Indian politician, who is the incumbent State Secretary in West Bengal of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was inducted in the politburo of CPI(M) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015. He was a Member of the 16th Lok Sabha, representing Raiganj constituency. Earlier, he was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha, representing the Calcutta North East constituency of West Bengal. After delimitation, in the 2009 Lok Sabha election Salim contested the new Calcutta North constituency, and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress. Mohammed Salim is contesting the 2024 Indian general election as the Left Front candidate from the Murshidabad (Lok Sabha constituency).
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Agnimitra Paul
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- politicianfashion designer
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Agnimitra Paul is an Indian fashion designer turned politician who serves as the Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Asansol South and as the President of the West Bengal unit of BJP Mahila Morcha. Prior to entering politics she was a Kolkata-based fashion designer.
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Kushal Chakraborty
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- film directoractortelevision actor
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Kushal Chakraborty is an Indian actor and film director associated with Bengali cinema. At the age of six, he played the role of Mukul in Satyajit Ray's film Sonar Kella for which he won National Film Award for best child artist in 1974. He introduced Rituparna Sengupta to showbiz with his directorial venture Shwet Kapot (1989). He directorial venture Dhyatterika (2005) was a major success on television.
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Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya
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- composersinger
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Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya was an Indian folk singer and researcher. He was born and raised in Silchar, Assam. He went on to study comparative literature at Jadavpur University. His musical inspiration was his uncle Ananta Bhattacharya. In 1999, he co-founded the band Dohar with the intent to revive the folk music tradition of Northern and Eastern Bengal. He also contributed music to a number of movies. His last movie was Bhuban Majhi (2017). He was associated with the popular Zee Bangla Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, a renowned Bengali music reality show. His last concert was in the Baguihati Krishi Mela.
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Rubana Huq
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- businesspersonpoetwriter
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Rubana Haque is a Bangladeshi businesswoman, university academic and poet. She has been the Vice-chancellor of Asian University for Women (AUW) since February 2022.
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Sujan Chakraborty
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- politician
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Sujan Chakraborty is an Indian Communist politician and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the MLA of Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) from 2016 to 2021. In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, he defeated his nearest rival, Minister for Power in the Government of West Bengal, Manish Gupta of the Trinamool Congress. In 2021 he was defeated by Moloy Majumdar of AITC by a margin of 38869 votes. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha representing Jadavpur constituency in West Bengal state. He is contesting the 2024 Indian General Election as a CPI(M) candidate from the Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency.
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Badal Sarkar
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- writerplaywrightdirectoractor
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Sudhindra Sircar, also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he transformed his own theatre company, Shatabdi (established in 1967 for proscenium theatre ) as a third theatre group. He wrote more than fifty plays of which Ebong Indrajit, Basi Khabar, and Saari Raat are well known literary pieces. A pioneering figure in street theatre as well as in experimental and contemporary Bengali theatre with his egalitarian "Third Theatre", he prolifically wrote scripts for his Aanganmanch (courtyard stage) performances, and remains one of the most translated Indian playwrights. Though his early comedies were popular, it was his angst-ridden Evam Indrajit (And Indrajit) that became a landmark play in Indian theatre. Today, his rise as a prominent playwright in 1960s is seen as the coming of age of Modern Indian playwriting in Bengali, just as Vijay Tendulkar did it in Marathi, Mohan Rakesh in Hindi, and Girish Karnad in Kannada.
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Bickram Ghosh
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- composerpercussionistactor
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Bickram Ghosh is an Indian classical tabla player.
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Manabi Bandyopadhyay
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- academic
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Manabi Bandyopadhyay is the first openly transgender Indian college principal.
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Neel Mukherjee
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- writernovelist
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Neel Mukherjee, FRSL is an Indian English-language writer based in London. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels. He is also the brother of the television anchor and editor Udayan Mukherjee.
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Swapan Chaudhuri
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- music educatorpercussionist
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Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, is an Indian tabla player. He has accompanied several musicians of Indian classical music, including, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ken Zuckerman and many more. He also taught his sons tabla. Chaudhuri is a disciple of Santosh Biswas in the Lucknow gharana.
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Kunal Basu
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- writer
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Kunal Basu is an Indian author of English fiction who has written five novels – The Opium Clerk (2001), The Miniaturist (2003), Racists (2006), The Yellow Emperor's Cure (2011) Kalkatta (2015) and Sarojini’s Mother (2020). The title story of his only collection of short stories, The Japanese Wife (2008), was made into a film by the Indian filmmaker Aparna Sen. Basu has also written four Bengali novels – Rabi-Shankar (2016), Bairer Dorja (2017), Tejoswini O Shabnam (2018) and Angel(2020)
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Tapan Misra
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- scientistmilitary flight engineer
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Tapan Misra is an Indian scientist who has been the Director of Space Applications Centre and Physical Research Laboratory in ISRO. He later became Senior Advisor to the Chairman, ISRO.
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Ranjon Ghoshal
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- musicianlyricist
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Ranjon Ghoshal was an Indian theatre director and musician. He was a member of the Bengali band Moheener Ghoraguli, and ran an advertising agency, Mareech Advertising in Bangalore, apart from Forum Three, a theatre group.
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Chinmoy Guha
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- writertranslatorliterary criticprofessor
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Chinmoy Guha is an Indian essayist, translator, and a scholar of French language and literature, currently serving as Professor Emeritus at the University of Calcutta. He has served as the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi. Earlier he taught English at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata for more than two decades, and French at the Alliance Française and the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture for eleven and five years respectively.
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Swapan Kumar Chakravorty
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- 1954-2021 (aged 67)
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- academicwriter
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Swapan Kumar Chakravorty was an Indian academic who was a distinguished Professor of Humanities at the Presidency University, Kolkata.
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Subir Raha
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- businessperson
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Subir Raha was a former Director (HR) of Indian Oil Corporation and ex-chairman and MD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation He received global recognition as Energy Executive of the Year 2005, from the Petroleum Economist, London, in September 2006.
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Sudhir Chakravarty
- Enrolled in Jadavpur University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- writer
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Sudhir Chakravarti was a Bengali educationist and essayist. He made a vast contribution in Bengal's folk culture development and research.
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Dipankar Chatterji
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- academic
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Dipankar Chatterji is an Indian molecular biologist and the Honorary Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, a multidisciplinary research institute under the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. He is known for his pioneering research on bacterial transcription. He is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and is an elected fellow of all the major Indian science academies. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to science and engineering.
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Pinaki Majumdar
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- physicist
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Pinaki Majumdar is an Indian condensed matter physicist and the director of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Known for his research on correlated quantum systems, Majumdar is a recipient of the Global Indus Technovator Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2007.
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Saroj Ghose
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- engineer
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Saroj Ghose is an Indian science popularizer and museum maker. He was the director of Birla Industrial & Technological Museum and director general of the National Council of Science Museums, Government of India. He was also the President of the International Council of Museums in Paris during 1992–98. He won many awards including one for "Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children". He has also mentored some of India's best Museum Developers.
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Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay
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- writer
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Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay is a Bengali writer from India. He has written novels and short stories for both adults and children.
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Mimi Mondal
- Born in
- India
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- role-playing game designerwriterscience fiction writereditor
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Monidipa "Mimi" Mondal is an Indian speculative fiction writer based in New York. She writes in many genres, including science fiction. Mondal is the co-editor of Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, an anthology of letters and essays, which received a Locus Award in 2018. It has been nominated for a 2018 Hugo Award, and the William Atheling Jr. Award. Mondal is the first writer from India to have been nominated for the Hugo Award..
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Mohit Ray
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- writerhuman rights activist
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Mohit Ray is an Indian environmental and human rights activist based in Kolkata. He has campaigned for saving the Adi Ganga, Bikramgarh Jheel and other water bodies of Kolkata. His seminal work in this field is the extensive research on the water bodies and heritage ponds of Kolkata. His work has been published by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Ananda Publishers. He has also published a number of papers in technical journals. He writes regularly on environmental issues in different journals including The Statesman, a national daily, in Anandabazar Patrika, Ei Samay and Bartaman, the Bengali dailies. He has also campaigned for a long time against the persecution of minorities in Bangladesh and the citizenship rights of the Bengali Hindu refugees.
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Subrata Roy
- Born in
- India
- Enrolled in Jadavpur University
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in mechanical engineering
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- mechanical engineerengineerinventorphysicist
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Subrata Roy is an Indian-born American inventor, educator, and scientist known for his work in plasma-based flow control and plasma-based self-sterilizing technology. He is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida and the founding director of the Applied Physics Research Group at the University of Florida. He is also the President and the founder of SurfPlasma Inc., a biotechnology company in Gainesville, Florida.
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Sandeep Shukla
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- computer scientist
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Sandeep Kumar Shukla is currently Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professor and previous head of Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems, and associate editor for ACM transactions on Cyber Physical Systems. He is currently the joint director of C3i centre at IIT Kanpur along with Manindra Agrawal.
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Ujjwal Maulik
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- computer scientist
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Ujjwal Maulik is an Indian computer scientist and educator. He is a professor and former head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He has worked in many countries including India, US, Germany, France, Australia, China, Italy, Poland, Mexico, Slovenia and Hungary. He also held the position of the principal-in-charge and the head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Kalyani Government Engineering College.
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Madhusree Dutta
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- film director
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Madhusree Dutta is an Indian filmmaker, author and curator.
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Amitava Chattopadhyay
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- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- economist
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Amitava Chattopadhyay is the GlaxoSmithKline Chaired Professor in Corporate Innovation — Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, Fellow of the Institute on Asian Consumer Insights, and Senior Fellow at the Ernst & Young Institute for Emerging Market Studies.
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Ipsita Biswas
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- ballistics expertscientist
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Ipsita Biswas is an Indian terminal ballistics scientist. In 2019 she was conferred India's highest civilian award for women, the Nari Shakti Puraskar, for her contributions to India's armed forces, paramilitary forces and women's empowerment in defence research and development.
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Tamal Dey
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematician
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Tamal Krishna Dey is an Indian mathematician and computer scientist specializing in computational geometry and computational topology. He is a professor at Purdue University.
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Ananta Charan Sukla
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- editorcomparative literature academicacademic
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Ananta Charan Sukla was an Indian scholar of comparative literature, literary criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, and art history. He was the Founding Editor of Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and edited and published the journal for over 40 years. He specialized in comparative aesthetics (Sanskrit and Western), literary theory, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature, religion, mythology, and cultural studies. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha.
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Syed Samsuddin Ahmed
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Bangladesh - Biography
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Syed Samsuddin Ahmed is a prominent academic from Bangladesh. He is the founder vice chancellor of Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science & Technology University. Prior to this position, Ahmed worked as a senior professor of the Department of Geology and Mining at University of Rajshahi and also served in different academic, administrative, and co-curricular development activities at the University of Rajshahi.