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Chakraborty (spelling variations include Chakraborti, Chakrabarti, Chakravarty, Chakrabartty and Chakrabarty) is a surname of Bengali Hindus and Assamese Hindus of India and Bangladesh, which literally means 'wheels rolling'; metaphorically it denotes a ruler whose chariot wheels roll everywhere without obstruction (''čakra'' 'wheel' + ''vart-'' 'to roll'). The surname is mainly used by people of the Bengali Brahmin and Assamese Brahmin communities in the states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam. Notable persons with this surname Male * Abani Chakravarty (1941–1994?), Indian Assamese poet * Ajay Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician * Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1953), Indian singer * Akinchan Chakrabarty (18th century), Bengali poet * Amal Chakraborty, Indian paediatric surgeon * Ambika Chakrabarty (1892–1962), Indian Bengali independence movement activist and revolutionary * Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet *Amiya Chakrava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengal
Bengal ( ) is a Historical geography, historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the Eastern South Asia, eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Bengal proper is divided between the modern-day sovereign nation of Bangladesh and the States and union territories of India, Indian states of West Bengal, and Karimganj district of Assam. The ancient Vanga Kingdom is widely regarded as the namesake of the Bengal region. The Bengali calendar dates back to the reign of Shashanka in the 7th century CE. The Pala Empire was founded in Bengal during the 8th century. The Sena dynasty and Deva dynasty ruled between the 11th and 13th centuries. By the 14th century, Bengal was absorbed by Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent. An independent Bengal Sultanate was formed and became the eastern frontier of the Islamic world. During this period, Bengal's rule and influence spread to Assam, Arakan, Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiya Chakravarty
Amiya Chandra Chakravarty (1901–1986) was an Indian literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet. He was a close associate of Rabindranath Tagore, and edited several books of his poetry. He was also an associate of Gandhi, and an expert on the American catholic writer and monk, Thomas Merton. Chakravarty was honoured for his own poetry with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963. He taught literature and comparative religion in India for nearly a decade and then for more than two decades at universities in England and the U.S. In 1970, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Bhushan award. Education and career He studied in Hare School, Calcutta and graduated from St. Columba's College, Hazaribagh, which was then under Patna University.p247, Religious Faith and World Culture, Amandus William Loos, from Google books result/ref> He joined Visva-Bharati University in 1921 as a student. Later, he became a teacher there. He was literary secretary to Rabindranath Tag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byomkes Chakrabarti
Byomkes Chakrabarti (also spelled Byomkesh Chakraborty or Byomkesh Chakrabarty) (1923–1981) was a Bengali research worker on ethnic languages. He was also a educationist and a poet. His major contribution to linguistics was in finding out some basic relationship between Santali and the Bengali language. He showed how the Bengali language has unique characteristics, absent in other Indian languages, under the influence of Santali. His contribution was fundamental to research on the origin and development of the Bengali language and provided scopes of research in newer horizons in linguistics. Life Byomkes Chakrabarti, son of Sarat Chandra Chakrabarti and Sitala Sundari Chakrabarti, was born in Kharar-Gopinathpur village in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India, in 1923. He took his M.A. degrees in English and Bengali from Calcutta University. He was the first Ph.D. on the Santali language from this university. Chakrabarti came in close contact with Suniti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Chakraborty
Bonnie Chakraborty is an Indian playback singer. he was the lead vocalist of Kolkata based band Krosswindz until 1998. He has sung many songs in several languages including Hindi, Tamil and Bengali for various films. Career Chakraborty teamed with Neil Mukherjee and formed a band, Kashti which was promoted by Zee Music. They produced an album of 8 songs that came and went unnoticed by the general public, although it was popular in the music circles of Mumbai. After three years the contract ended and the duo separated. Chakraborty moved on with the formation of another band, Oikyotaan along with Kartick das Baul, a baul singer from Guskara in West Bengal. He has four Bengali albums to his credit including three for the group Mohiner Ghoraguli, led by Gautam Chattopadhyay. In 2011 he released ''Tagore Unbound,'' a Rabindra sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' (; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengalis, Bengal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (also Birendra Narayan Chakravarty) (20 December 1904 – 26 March 1976) was an Indian civil servant, politician and the second governor of Haryana. He attended Kolkata's Scottish Church College, and continued his education at the University of Calcutta. He joined University College London for a BSc in chemistry in 1926. After further studies for the Indian Civil Service examinations at the School of Oriental Studies, London, he passed the examinations in 1928 and joined the ICS in October 1929 as an assistant collector and magistrate in the Bengal Presidency. He was promoted to joint magistrate and deputy collector in July 1930 and to additional district and sessions judge (officiating) in June 1935. In February 1936, he was promoted to full magistrate and collector, and was appointed a joint secretary with the Finance Department of the Government of Bengal in April 1944. As an acting secretary, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bikas K Chakrabarti
Bikas Kanta Chakrabarti (born 14 December 1952 in Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) is an Indian physicist. At present he is INSA Scientist (Physics) at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics & Visiting Professor (Economics) at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Biography Chakrabarti received his Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University in 1979. Following post-doctoral work at the University of Oxford and the University of Cologne, he joined the faculty of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) in 1983. He is S. S. Bhatnagar Prize awardee (1997) and former J. C. Bose National Fellow (2011-2020). He is a former director of SINP. At present he is INSA Scientist at SINP (2021-) and also Honorary Visiting Professor of economics (2007-) at the Indian Statistical Institute. Emeritus Professor of SINP and of S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. Much of Chakrabarti's research has centered around statistical condensed matter physics (including Quantum anneal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicky Chakraborty
Barun Kumar “Bicky” Chakraborty (28 August 1943 – 26 August 2022) was an Indian-born Swedish businessman. He was the president and founder of Elite Hotels of Sweden and The Bishop's Arms. He was counted as one of the richest men in Scandinavia. Biography Chakraborty came to Sweden from Calcutta, India in 1966 to study Sociology at the Stockholm University. He saw that student dormitories were empty over the summer and began pushing the dorm Domus as a discount hotel to rent out those who were located near Stureplan in Stockholm. Chakraborty managed to acquire these properties from the student association in private hands and they became due plate in his hotel empire. Later he went on to buy the rundown city hotel (sv) and rehabilitate it. In 1980, he bought Hotel in London, a historic city hotel from 1858. At this time there were several run down city hotels around the country. Swedish hospitality was most focused on motels near urban areas. Chakraborty saw this opportu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arup Chakraborty
Arup K. Chakraborty is an American engineer, focusing in biophysics, computational modeling and infectious disease, currently the Robert T. Haslam Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and formerly the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Distinguished Professor at University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t .... References Living people MIT School of Engineering faculty 21st-century American engineers University of Delaware alumni University of Minnesota alumni 1961 births Members of the National Academy of Medicine American people of Bengali descent American people of Indian descent Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance candidates in 2024 Indian general election India MPs 2024–2029 {{US-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnab Chakrabarty
Arnab Chakrabarty (born 19 September 1980) is a Hindustani classical musician and sarod player based in Toronto, Canada. Early life and education Arnab Chakrabarty grew up in Mumbai, where his father was a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology. His tutelage commenced under the sarod exponent Brij Narayan, disciple of his father the sarangi Pandit Ram Narayan and also Ustad Ali Akbar Khan of the Seniya Maihar Gharana. Arnab subsequently trained under Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta of the Shahjahanpur Gharana. Arnab studied ethnomusicology and international relations at Hampshire College as a scholarship student, graduating in 2002. This experience exposed him to other traditions of music, and led him to experiment with new ideas in sarod construction and design, as well as musical idioms. Subsequent tutelage and influences Arnab's early training followed the Maihar and Shahjahanpur schools, which both derived from the Senia idiom founded by the legendary Mia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjun Chakrabarty
Arjun Chakrabarty is an Indian Bengali film and television actor best known for his portrayal of the character Gora in the Bengali musical television series '' Gaaner Oparey'' that aired on Star Jalsha from 28 June 2010 to 16 April 2011. Chakrabarty is also known for acting in the Bengali drama-romance-comedy television series '' Jamai Raja'' (2017–2018), where he played the lead role Ishan Chatterjee. He hails from a family which has had a legacy of association with the Bengali cultural arena, starting from Jochhon Dastidar and Chandra Dastidar (his paternal great uncle and aunt), Bijon Bhattacharya (his paternal great uncle), Jagdish Chandra Chakrabarty and Monika Chakrabarty (his paternal grandparents) and his parents Sabyasachi Chakrabarty and Mithu Chakrabarty. He debuted on the big screen Sudeshna Roy and Abhijit Guha's '' Bapi Bari Jaa'' in 2012. Calcutta Times voted him as one of the 10 Most Desirable Men in 2015, 2019 & 2020. Education Chakrabarty had his schooling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arindam Chakrabarti
Arindam Chakrabarti is an Indian philosopher who is a professor of philosophy at Ashoka University, India. He is the disciple of Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Calcutta in 1976 and 1978, respectively. He completed DPhil at Oxford University in 1982, under the supervision of Sir Peter Strawson and Michael Dummett Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (; 27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." H .... Selected publications * ''Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects and Other Subjects'' (24 chapters Monograph)—Bloomsbury, London, published 2019. * ''The Book of Questions: An Introduction to Indian Philosophical Analysis''—Penguin Books, India. 2018. * Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, 2017. * Comparative Philosophy wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aravinda Chakravarti
Aravinda Chakravarti (born 6 February 1954, Calcutta) is a human geneticist and expert in computational biology, and Director of the Center For Human Genetics & Genomics at New York University. He was the 2008 President of the American Society of Human Genetics. Chakravarti became a co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal ''Genome Research'' in 1995, and of the ''Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics in 2005. Early life and education Aravinda Chakravarti was born in Calcutta in 1954, his family's third son. Their childhood revolved around the importance of education, and he attended the Calcutta Boys' School (CBS). Chakravarti received his Bachelor of Statistics in 1974 from the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta. He moved to the United States, where he studied with Masatoshi Nei, receiving his PhD in human genetics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1979. Chakravarti took a postdoctoral position at the University of Washington in Seattl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
