Biswatosh Sengupta (born 11 September 1944) is an Indian academic. He is the fourth son among seven children of Manindranath and Provabati Sengupta.

Education

Sengupta had done B.Sc. Honors in Mathematics from

Calcutta University The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

, 1966. Obtained Certificate in

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

from

Indian Statistical Institute The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a public research university headquartered in Kolkata, India with centers in New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Tezpur. It was declared an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India und ...

(ISI) in the same year. After that he had done master's degree in Statistics (M. Stat) from ISI, 1969 and in also did Post Graduate Diploma in

Demography Demography () is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration. Demographic analysis examine ...

from ISI and Summer Course on

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from East-West Centre,

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, United States and Korean Institute of family planning,

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, in 1974 with special Workshop on Demographic Survey Research Methods. He also took In-service training course on Management and Planning of Environment from Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Govt. of

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in 1985. He did Post Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing in English (DCE) in 1995, Diploma in Computer in Office Management (DCO) in 1998 and Master in Computer Application (MCA) in the year 2006 from

Indira Gandhi National Open University Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is a National university, public Open university (concept), open & Distance education, distance learning university located in Delhi, India. Named after the former Prime Minister of India, prime ...

(IGNOU). He was also trained on Geographic Information System (GIS) from ATI in August, 2004. Recently in 2010, he completed the Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Appreciation of Indian Art’, from the

Ramakrishna Mission Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a spiritual and philanthropic organisation headquartered in Belur Math, West Bengal. The mission is named after the Indian Hindu spiritual guru and mystic Ramakrishna. The mission was founde ...

Institute of Culture, Kolkata.''2nd Solo Exhibition on Graphic Art'', Booklet 2010 : by Samir Bhattacharya

Career

Biswatosh was the Additional Director-in-Charge in Socio-Economic Planning and Appraisal Maintaining Evaluation in

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(KMDA), Salt Lake. He retired from there on 30 September 2004. His specializations are Statistics, Demography, Planning and

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. At present he is working as Professor in Information Technology and Head of the Department of BCA in B P Poddar Institute of Management & Technology situated in Kolkata.

Work

He was a former member, University Grant Commission Curriculum Development Committee for Visual Art. Honorary Joint Secretary, Photographic Association of Dum Dum (PAD) since 1973 and editor of IMAGE, a publication of PAD since 1974. He was also an ex-member of working group on Perspective Plan for Calcutta Metropolitan Area(CMA), State Planning Board, Government of West Bengal and initially he was associated with the Calcutta Fertility Survey of ISI, 1970–72 and later associated with the Socio-Economic Survey of KMDA (formerly CMDA), 1996.

Awards and distinctions

He was awarded AFIAP distinction for outstanding contribution in the field of

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in 1975 and ESFIAP for Excellent Service for the cause of International Photography in 1985 by the

Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique, or FIAP (Eng. The International Federation of Photographic Art), is an international organization of national associations of photography. As of 2021 91 national associations are members, compri ...

. He was conferred the Honorary Fellowship of The National Photographic Art Society Sri Lanka in 1984. Very recent Bangladesh Photographic Society conferred Fellowship to Sengupta.

Exhibition

First

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on paintings with computer graphics ‘Graphic Art’ using ‘ C’ and ‘

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’ held at

Indian Museum Indian Museum (formerly called Imperial Museum of Calcutta) is a grand museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest, as well as the largest museum in Asia, by size of collection. It ...

, Kolkata in 2009. The second solo exhibition on the same title with similar technique was held at

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, Kolkata, from 22 – 28 July 2010''2nd Solo Exhibition on Graphic Art'', Booklet 2010
and the third solo exhibition on Graphic Art using c, c++ and

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was held at the same gallery of Kolkata from 3–9 October 2012. His 4th solo exhibition on Creative Photography will be held on 11 December 2013 for three days at the Gaganendra Silpa Pradarshasala, Kolkata .

Published work

* *Co-author of ''Learn Photography'' and ''Experimental Photography'', published by Photographic Association of Dum Dum.

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sengupta, Biswatosh Indian statisticians Scientists from Kolkata 1944 births Living people University of Calcutta alumni Indira Gandhi National Open University alumni AFIAP