Pinaki Chattopadhyay
Dr. Pinaki Chattopadhyay is a Bengali language elocutionist, and well-known personality in the field of Art of Recitation. Although, he prefers to call himself a poetry performer. Pinaki Chattopadhyay was born in 1971 in Koshigram, a village near Katwa of Burdwan, West Bengal, India, to Late Sunity Chatterjee and Smt. Ava Chatterjee.[1]
Early life
Dr. Pinaki Chattopadhyay (Pinaki Chatterjee) did his graduation and post-graduation in physiology from the City College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta) and Presidency College (University of Calcutta) respectively. He was awarded a research fellowship by Sports Authority of India and started his research career in Sports Physiology at SAI, Bangalore. He is the pioneer research worker in the field of physiological aspects of women boxing in India and conducted the physiological monitoring of the training sessions of the first national camp in which Olympic medalist Mary Kom was one of the participants. He obtained his PhD degree in Physiology from University of Kalyani.[2]
Teaching and academic administration
Chattopadhyay has authored many research articles as principal author and the majority of his publications are in international journals.[3] He has also authored a book in Physiology for medical students.[4] He has participated in several international and national workshops, seminars, and conferences organized by Govt. of Western Australia, USA in Action, West Bengal Association of Sports medicine etc.[5][6] He is a member of the editorial board of international journals.[7] He is also associated as an expert reviewer for many international journals of biomedical sciences.[8] Chattopadhyay is a member or life member of many scientific societies.[9] He has experience teaching physiology for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in different dental and medical colleges of India and Nepal.[10] Presently, he is working as an Academic Administrator. He is also continuing his research work in his specialized area Exercise & Environment, and in a true sense, his better half Paulomi Das and himself are contributing significantly in this area.[11][12] [13]
Recitation and other performing arts
Pinaki Chattopadhyay started his recitation performance during his school days. After coming to Calcutta, he became associated with Akashvani and started airing Bengali Talks in Yuvo-Vani. During this period, he also performed in Doordarshan, Calcutta, in special talk programs and Tarunder Janyo. Pinaki was approved as an FM presenter in All India Radio in the year 1997.[14]
Solo audio album
December 6 (6th December), Background Music by: Tapan Sinha, Released from MUSIC 2000 in the year 2006. The album contains recitations of poems: [15][16][17][18] 1. Iskul Jaibar Chhora (Poet: Shibashis Mukhopadhyayay) 2. Kathopokathon (Poet: Purnendu Patri) 3. Baro Ghorir Niche (Poet: Shovon Patra) 4. Local Train (Poet: Subho Dasgupta) 5. Baisakhi (Poet: Koushik) 6. Megh Bolte Apotti Nei (Poet: Joy Goswami) 7. Banshi (Poet: Subho Dasgupta) 8. Shono Meye Kotha Bujhe Dyakho (Poet: Joy Goswami) 9. Sokalta (Poet: Boijayanti Bhattachrya) 10. Anko (Poet: Subho Dasgupta) 11. Joratali (Poet: Subodh Sarkar) 12. Chilekothar Sandhya (Poet: Subho Dasgupta) The album was highly praised by the media. Media says it is highly recommended for anyone who has the ear and heart for poetry, magic, lyricism, and mysticism.[19]
Award & honour
He was awarded ABRITTI RATNA (2004) in a function at Bangla Academy by Padmashree Debdulal Bandopadhyay on behalf of Samantaral for his contribution to recitation and his youthfulness in performance.[20]
Solo performance of recitation
i. at Kalakunja (2000): Organized by Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre(EZCC) & Uuzania ii. at Bangla Academy (2012): organized by Mrittika. His stage performances of recitation were highly praised by the media and the mass; his recitation is said to be the performing interpretation of the poems.[21][22][23]
Published book on recitation
[24]Chhotoder Aabritti- Ak guccha kobita o chhara. In the first part of the book, Pinaki expressed his views and shared his experiences on different aspects of recitation in a simple and comprehensive manner for beginners. The second part is a collection of poems by poets of different eras, with which children may start practicing recitation.[25][26]
Talk-show presenter - FM, All India Radio, Govt. of India, Calcutta.
Pinaki was approved as an FM presenter in All India Radio, Calcutta. Regularly hosted programs during the period 1997–2000. • Invited participant of discussion & special talk programs, Tarunder Janyo etc. – Doordarshan, Govt. of India, Calcutta. • Participant of talk programs (Bangla Kothika)- Yuva-vani, All India Radio (Akashvani), Govt. of India, Calcutta. • Anchored Bangla Sangeetmela (1999, 2000, 2009, 2011), Dept. of Information & Culture, Govt. of W.B.[27] • Docudrama: His remarkable solo performance was a trilogy of monologues titled Neshakhorer Jabanbandi at Shishir Mancha organized by Aalapon. External Link: 1. http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=WbWdoo8AAAAJ&hl=en
References
- ↑ http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/3809410-bangla-kobita-abritti-dr-pinaki-chattopadhyay-bengali-poetry-recitation
- ↑ http://klyuniv.ac.in/upload/officer/Pinaki.pdf
- ↑ http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=WbWdoo8AAAAJ&hl=en
- ↑ "PRACTICAL PHYSIOLOGY".. (ISBN 978-81-7381-643-7), New Central Book Agency, 2011.
- ↑ http://klyuniv.ac.in/upload/officer/Pinaki.pdf
- ↑ http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/3809410-bangla-kobita-abritti-dr-pinaki-chattopadhyay-bengali-poetry-recitation
- ↑ http://www.jhse.ua.es/jhse/about/editorialTeamBio/312
- ↑ http://klyuniv.ac.in/upload/officer/Pinaki.pdf
- ↑ http://www.physiologicalsocietyofindia.org.in/Life_Members.pdf
- ↑ http://klyuniv.ac.in/upload/officer/Pinaki.pdf
- ↑ Environmental Science and Pollution Research, DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3314-9. Source: PubMed, 2014.
- ↑ http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=WbWdoo8AAAAJ&hl=en
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dr_Pinaki_Chatterjee_Chattopadhyay=en
- ↑ http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/3809410-bangla-kobita-abritti-dr-pinaki-chattopadhyay-bengali-poetry-recitation
- ↑ Sananda, 30 April 2007
- ↑ The times of India, 12 September 2007
- ↑ Saptahik Bartoman, 17 February 2007
- ↑ http://bangla.ganashakti.co.in/shownews.php?w=318&h=957&year=2007&month=8&date=25&page=17&dpn=136726 Ganashakti, 28th August, 2007
- ↑ The times of India, 12 September 2007
- ↑ Dainik Statesman 21 May 2012
- ↑ Aajkal, 25 June 2012
- ↑ Sananda, 30 July 2012
- ↑ Ganashakti, 4th June 2012 http://bangla.ganashakti.co.in/shownews.php?w=441&h=1014&year=2012&month=6&date=4&page=4&dpn=289605
- ↑ "Ganashakti, 29th July 2013".
- ↑ Ganashakti, 3rd November 2013
- ↑ Chhotoder aabritti- ak guccha kobita o chhora. (ISBN 978-81-9224-746-5), Sudarshan Prakashan (PROVA), 2012
- ↑ Deptt. of Inf. & Culture, I.C.A 1187 (3)/2009 (Anandabazar Patrika, 14 April 2009)
