Alexander Duff

Alexander Duff

male, deceased (1878)
Scottish, church of scotland, missionary, calcutta, Bengali renaissance, From Kolkata…UniversityofCalcutta, Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Alexander Duff, D.D. LLD. (April 15, 1806 - February 12, 1878), was a Christian missionary of Scottish heritage who worked in India. He was the...
Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen

male, 86 years old
communist party, Mrinal Shen, Faridpur, Scottish Church College, Communist Party of India, UniversityofCalcutta…calcutta, University of Calcutta alumni
Mrinal Sen (also spelled "Mrinal Shen") is a famous Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on (May 14, 1923), in the town of Faridpur, now in...
Surendranath Dasgupta

Surendranath Dasgupta

male, deceased (1952)
bengal, philosopher, sanskrit, philosophy, Scholar, University of Cambridge…UniversityofCalcutta, University of Calcutta alumni, Theory of Dependent Emergence
Surendranath Dasgupta (1887-1952) was a scholar of Sanskrit and philosophy. He was principal of Sanskrit College and later a professor at the...
Sunil Gangopadhyay

Sunil Gangopadhyay

male, 75 years old
UniversityofCalcutta, Arjun, Pratidwandi, Aranyer Din-Raatri, Ananda Bazar group, Neera, Murmur in the Woods…The Days and Nights of the Forest, University of Calcutta alumni, partition of India, Calcutta University
Sunil Gangopadhyay was born on 7 September, 1934 in Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh. Sunil got his Master's degree in Bengali from the...
Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee

male, 73 years old (India)
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, 14th Lok Sabha Member, 14th Lok Sabha, Indian Foreign Minister, Foreign Minister of India, University of Calcutta alumni…UniversityofCalcutta, Member of the Cabinet of India, Finance Minister of India, Minister of External Affairs
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (प्रन्ब कुमार मुख्रजी)(born December 11, 1935, West Bengal, India) is the Foreign Minister of India in the Manmohan Si...
Walpola Rahula

Walpola Rahula

male, deceased (1997)
Sri Jayawardenapura University, The venerable Prof Walpola Sri Rahula Maha Thera, bhikkhu, Sinhalese, Scholar, theravada buddhism…UniversityofCalcutta, University of Colombo, University of Kelaniya, Northwestern University
The venerable Prof Walpola Sri Rahula Maha Thera (1907-1997) was a Buddhist monk, scholar and writer. He is considered to be one of the top Sri...
Jp Rangaswami

Jp Rangaswami

male, 52 years old
Indian, Royal Society of Arts, UniversityofCalcutta, BT Group, St. Xavier's College, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein…Calcutta, India
JP Rangaswami (born 12 November 1957 in Calcutta, India) lived in Calcutta for half his life before emigrating to the United Kingdom. He studied...
Anjan Dutta

Anjan Dutta

male
anyodharar gaan, St Pauls School,Darjeeling, graduate student, Venice Film Festival, South Asia, University of Calcutta alumni…UniversityofCalcutta
Anjan Dutta is a popular artist of the 1990s Bengali music scene defined by "anyodharar gaan" (alternative songs). He passed his childhood in St...
Bidhan Chandra Roy

Bidhan Chandra Roy

male, deceased (1962)
Doctor, Medical College Calcutta, Congress Party, University of Calcutta alumni, chief minister, UniversityofCalcutta…Calcutta Medical College
Bidhan Chandra Roy (July 1 1882 - July 1 1962) was the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, India. He remained in his post for 14 years as a...