Manik Bandyopadhyay [alias Banerjee] is an Indian author regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature. During a lifespan of 48 years and 28 years of literary career,battling with epilepsy from the age of around 28 and financial strains all along,he produced some masterpieces of novels and short stories,besides some poems,essays etc. One of the early neo-realist film shot in Pakistan,The Day Shall Dawn is based on his story.
Rasgulla is a syrupy dessert popular in the eastern part of South Asia. It is made from ball-shaped dumplings of chhena dough,cooked in light sugar syrup. This is done until the syrup permeates the dumplings.
Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay,popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar,was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century. His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type,which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. His best known works are the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali,Aparajito (Undefeated),Chander Pahar and Aranyak.
Kanika Banerjee was a Bengali Rabindra Sangeet singer.
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language. He wrote 65 novels,53-story-books,12 plays,4 essay-books,4 autobiographies,2 travel stories and composed several songs. He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar,Sahitya Akademi Award,Jnanpith Award,Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. He was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 and posthumously nominated in 1972.
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.
Rakhal Das Banerji,also Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay,was an Indian archaeologist and an officer of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). In 1919,he became the second ASI officer deputed to survey the site of Mohenjo-daro and returned there in the 1922-23 season. He was the first person to propose the remote antiquity of the site—which he did in a letter to Marshall in 1923—and in effect of the Harappan culture. After leaving the ASI,he held the Manindra Chandra Nandy professorship of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the Banaras Hindu University from 1928 until his premature death in 1930.
Bhadralok is Bengali for the new class of 'gentlefolk' who arose during British rule in India in the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
The Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party,or Praja Party for short,was a political party of India. Established in 1951,it merged with the Socialist Party to form the Praja Socialist Party in the following year. The Andhra unit of the party,however,revived the old party under the name "Praja Party" and lasted for a few more years.
Durgapur Purba Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Sudip Bandyopadhyay is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament. Sudip Bandyopadhyay has been a member of the Lok Sabha for five terms,serving in the 12th,13th,15th,16th,17th,18th Lok Sabhas. He represents the Kolkata Uttar constituency of West Bengal and is a member of the Trinamool Congress political party. He is the Leader of Trinamool Congress in Lok Sabha.
R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) is a Public hospital in Kolkata,West Bengal,India which started as Asia's first private medical college. It was established in 1886 to ensure self-sufficiency in medical education and services in the colonial era. On May 12,1958,the West Bengal Government assumed management of the establishment. It was under the University of Calcutta from 1916 to 2003 and affiliated to West Bengal University of Health Sciences when it was established in 2003. The college is a co-educational institution that is recognized by the National Medical Commission and affiliated with the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is an Indian scientist specializing in computational biology. A professor at the Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata,she is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner in Engineering Science for 2010,IInfosys Prize 2017 laureate in the Engineering and Computer Science category and TWAS Prize winner for Engineering Sciences in 2018. Her research is mainly in the areas of evolutionary computation,pattern recognition,machine learning and bioinformatics. Since 1 August 2015,she has been the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute,and she would oversee the functioning of all five centres of Indian Statistical Institute located at Kolkata,Bangalore,Delhi,Chennai,and Tezpur besides several other Statistical Quality Control &Operation Research Units spread across India. She is the first woman Director of the Indian Statistical Institute. Currently she is on the Prime Ministers' Science,Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. In 2022 she was given the Padma Shri award for Science and Engineering by the Government of India.
Debabrata Bandyopadhyay is a Member of Parliament representing All India Trinamool Congress in the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal. He was Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank and had retired from the ADB from December 1991.
Siddhartha Roy is an Indian structural biologist,biophysicist,former director of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology and the former director (officiating) of Bose Institute. Widely known for his studies on bacteriophage lambda and protein synthesis,he is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. In 1999,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,for his contributions to Biological sciences.
Tarak Bandyopadhyay was an Indian politician from West Bengal belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Debabrata Goswami FInstP FRSC,is an Indian chemist and the Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor of Chemistry,at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is also a professor of The Department of Chemistry and The Center for Lasers &Photonics at the same Institute. Goswami is an associate editor of the open-access journal Science Advances. He is also an Academic Editor for PLOS One and PeerJ Chemistry. He has contributed to the theory of Quantum Computing as well as nonlinear optical spectroscopy. His work is documented in more than 200 research publications. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry,Fellow of the Institute of Physics,the SPIE,and The Optical Society. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE,has been awarded a Swarnajayanti Fellowship for Chemical Sciences,and has held a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship. He is the third Indian to be awarded the International Commission for Optics Galileo Galilei Medal for excellence in optics.
Debabrata Mukherjee is an Indian mountaineer and explorer from West Bengal. He was the oldest,first civilian Indian to climb Mount Everest from the North Col. He is also the first person to cross Chaukhamba Col from Badrinath to reach Gangotri.
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is an Indian historian and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Bandyopadhyay is known for his research on the Dalit caste of Bengal.
