Jijnasa - Amlan Datta Special Issue is published

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Documentary on Amlan Datta - Part 1

© 2009. Arun Chakraborty. All rights reserved.

Documentary on Amlan Datta - Part 2

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Documentary on Amlan Datta - Part 3

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Amlan Datta - an introduction

• Born in the Comilla district of undivided India in the year 1924
  
• Top ranker at the university
  
• Started career in teaching profession in the year 1947
  
• Director of the Gandhian Institute of Studies (1978-1979)
  
• Vice Chancellor of North Bengal University (1974 - 1977)
  
• Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University (1980 - 1984)
  
• Lectured in the United States of America
  
• Talked about Mahatma Gandhi in Australia
  
• Talked about Rabindranath Tagore in China
  
• Talked about economic development and education-challenges at many forums in India and abroad (viz. Japan, Denmark and the West Indies)
  
• Joint editor of Quest magazine along with Abu Sayeed Ayub
  
• Represented India at United Nations Social Development Commission in 1979
  
• Delivered the 'Kamala Lecture Series' in 1982 in Calcutta University
  

Presently residing in Calcutta (Kolkata)

 

Accolades:

• Desikottam Award from Visva Bharati University
  
• Jagattarini Award and Kamala Award from Calcutta University
  
• Ananda Puraskar from Anandabazar Group
  
• Vidyasagar Award (1999)
  

 

Bibliography:

Bengali –

• Ganatantra O Ganayug (1967, Ananda Publishers)
  
• Teen Diganta (1978, Ananda Publishers)
  
• Byakti, Yukti, Samaj (1978, Ananda Publishers)
  
• Kamala Baktrita O Anyanya Bhashan (1984)
  
• Gandhi O Rabindranath (1986, Ananda Publishers)
  
• Dwanda O Uttaran (1989, Ananda Publishers)
  
• Bikalpa Samajer Sandhane (1994, Ananda Publishers)
  
• Anya Ek Biplab (1999, Ananda Publishers)
  
• Je Katha Balite Chai (Ananda Publishers)
  
• Mukti Tore Petei Hobe
  

 

English –

• For Democracy (1953)
  
• Religion, Education and Development (1968)
  
• The Third Movement (1987, Ananda Publishers)
  
• A New Radicalism and Other Essays (1989, Minarva – Calcutta)
  
• For A Quiet Revolution (1997, Papyrus – Calcutta)
  
• On The Edge of A Century (1999, Subarnarekha – Calcutta)
  
• Towards The Good Life (Subarnarekha – Calcutta)
  
• Socialism, Democracy and Industrialization (Allen & Unwin)
  
• Perspectives of Economic Development (Macmillan)
  
• Beyond Socialism (Popular Prakashan)
  
• The Gandhian Way (North Eastern Hill University)
  
• Transitional Puzzles (Sage Publication)
  

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This data is not complete and any addition is most welcome.

Photographs of Amlan Datta