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 Dr.
Partha Chattopadhya presently a full time Bengali writer of
travelogues, novels, short stories and Motivation has now
taken Projects on writing books on International Travel. He
is now recipient of a senior writing Fellowship by Ministry
of Culture and Tourism, Govt, of India. His subject is imparting
libera! thoughts through Travel Literatures.
Dr. Chattopadhya has written Five Travellouges - (1) Under
the European Sun - A Traveller's Account, on West and East
Europe. (2) From Central Asia to Siberia. (3) The New Star
Over China, (4) Travelling Europe and the USA-with Mrs. Indira
Gandhi (5) Date Line Dakha of Bangladesh war 1971-72.
In 2007 he has undertaken a New Book Project : Asia Awakens.
 For
this project he has already visited Japan, Hong Kong, South
Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand,
For the Second Phase he intends to travel through singapur,
Malayasia, Indonesia. He will end his tour in West Australia
and Newzealand, He visited East Australia in 1984,
Dr. Chattopadhya had a long stint in journalism between 1960
and 1998, He worked as a special correspondent for The Ananda
Bazar and Telegraph group for 31 years. Then he became editor
of two Bengali Newspapers published from Kolkata. In 1998
he joined Assam University as a Professor and Dean of Mass
Communication which he held till 2002.  Since
then he has been writing books and articles for Magazines
and Newspapers on full time basis and has been accredidated
by Govt, of West Bengal as a free lance journalist.
As a prolific writed he has written about 90 books.
Dr.
Chattopadhya has toured all continents of the world barring
South America. In many countries like USA, Australia, China,
Japan, Korea, USSR, UK his tours were sponsored by respective
Governments. He was awarded two prestigious Travelling Fellowships
- Commonwealth Press Union Fellowship (1960) and Jetterson
Fellowship (1974). He won a number of awards for his writings.
He was conferred honorary citizenship by the Mayor of Peuria,
USA. ICSSR, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India Sponsored
his lecture trip to Austria.
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Honour
and Awards - Conferred Sahitya Ratna (Jwel of Literature)
by Howrah Pundit Samaj in 1995.
Awards/Prizes - Recipient of ISCLO prize in
Journalism, Dishari Prize as playwright. Santosh Ghosh prize
for journalism. Ramananda Chatterjee prize for Journalism. Indian
Critic Circle Award as Best Journalist of the year. Dakshini-Barta
magazine award for best novel in 1997.
Past Journalism teaching experiences -
1) Taught in MA Journalism Programme from 1976 to 1985 al the
University of Calcutta.
2) Founded Eastern India Centre for Mass Communication Studies
in Calcutta in 1975.
3) Taught at dozens of prestigious institutions like Govt. Administrative
4) Training Institute, Bharatiya Vidya Bhaban, Institute of
Urban
5) Development, BHU, J.U. and Chitratani, Kolkata. |
Publications
- Wrote 85 books in Bengali. Numerous Short-stories,
Novels, Radio and Stage Plays, a number of Research Papers.
Many writings were translated in Hindi and English. |
Present
Activities - Founded Institute for Personality Development
and Value Education, an NGO for promoting healthy pesonality
and value based positive life style. Engaged in full time writing,
Freelance Journalist, accredited by Govt, of W. Bengal. His
present activities further include imparting motivation and
leadership training to the students, youths and corporate employees
across the country. He also provides one is to one personal
counselling. He undertakes lecture tours to address rthe university
students on life skill education what he calls-education beyond
classroom and so far got very encovering responses. |
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