Chinmoy Guha Explained

Chinmoy Guha
Birth Date:10 September 1958
Birth Place:Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Spouse:Anasuya Guha
Children:Surangama Guha
Occupation:Professor Emeritus of English, essayist, translator
Awards:Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres; Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite; Sahitya Akademi Award

Chinmoy Guha (born September 1958 in Kolkata, India) is Professor Emeritus[1] at the University of Calcutta,[2] a Bengali essayist and translator, and a scholar of French language and literature. He has served as the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi.[3] Earlier he taught English at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata for more than two decades, and French at the Alliance Française and the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture for eleven and five years respectively.[4] [5]

He has won the Lila Ray award of the Government of West Bengal in 2008 and the Derozio bicentenary award in 2010. He has been awarded knighthoods by the ministries of Education and Culture of the Government of France, in 2010 and 2013. Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi and the Government of West Bengal conferred on him Vidyasagar Puroshkar in 2017. The French President conferred on him in November 2019 the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite for his contribution to intercultural exchange. He won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 in Bengali literature for his collection of essays Ghumer Darja Thele.

Education

Guha graduated in English literature from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and followed up with an M. A. from the University of Calcutta. He completed his PhD from Jadavpur University where he was a Teacher Fellow for one year.[6]

He has researched in France, Britain and Switzerland. He has lectured on Romain Rolland and India and other subjects at the India Festival in Boulogne-Billancourt (2002), at University of Avignon (2004), Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon (2005), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (2009), Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (2009), Edinburgh Napier University (2012), the Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius (2012), Université de Paris-Sorbonne (2015), Académie des Belles Lettres et des Sciences, La Rochelle, France (2017) and the Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, Serbia (2017). He has been a visiting professor at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris (2009 and 2013).[7]

Career

Guha is Professor in the Department of English of University of Calcutta. He was also the former Head of the department and is at present the Chair of the PhD programme in English and the Undergraduate Board of English Studies. He has also lectured at multiple foreign universities including universities of Paris-Sorbonne, University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland; St John's College, Oxford; Manchester University, Warwick University, Worcester University College, University of Avignon, France; Institut des Langues Orientales, Paris et al.

Guha was the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and is a former director of Bureau du Livre, Embassy of France in New Delhi.

Literary activities

His translation of Molière's George Dandin, staged by Alliance Française de Chittagong, Bangladesh won an award in 2009.[8]

A review in the Times Higher Education praised his enthusiasm for Eliot's poetry and his book Where the Dreams Cross as thoughtful and instructive' which 'casts a fresh light on Eliot's poetry'.[9]

Awards

Documentaries

He has been the narrator of several documentaries produced by the Bhasha Mandakini project of the Central Institute of Indian Languages. The documentaries pertained to subjects such as Rabindranath Tagore, Arun Mitra, Kaliprasanna Singha, Peary Chand Mitra, Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay and Buddhadeb Bosu.[16]

Works

Books

Articles in books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chinmoy-Guha.
  2. Web site: Teachers-Profile-chinmoy . Caluniv.ac.in . 4 November 2013 . 1 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131101180910/http://www.caluniv.ac.in/academic/english-teacher/chinmoy.html . dead .
  3. Web site: French honour for Professor Chinmoy Guha – Times of India . Timesofindia.indiatimes.com . 18 October 2013 . 4 November 2013 . 5 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170105100329/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/French-honour-for-Professor-Chinmoy-Guha/articleshow/24311771.cms . live .
  4. Web site: PASSERELLE : Chinmoy Guha, les littératures au cœur . Le Mauricien . 5 April 2013 . 4 November 2013 . 5 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105012154/http://www.lemauricien.com/article/passerelle-chinmoy-guha-les-litteratures-au-coeur . live .
  5. Web site: CONFERENCE DU PROFESSEUR CHINMOY GUHA | CitĂŠ internationale universitaire de Paris . https://archive.today/20131104183629/http://193.52.24.107/en/actuel/citescope/conf%C3%A9rence_du_professeur_chinmoy_guha . dead . 4 November 2013 . 193.52.24.107 . 24 November 2009 . 4 November 2013 .
  6. Web site: Teachers' Profile of Professor Chinmoy Guha. https://web.archive.org/web/20180909112700/http://www.caluniv.ac.in/academic/english-teacher/chinmoy.html. 9 September 2018. 7 February 2014.
  7. Web site: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme: Chercheurs invités DEA . Msh-paris.fr . 4 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131109144353/http://www.msh-paris.fr/recherche/bourses-de-recherche-post-doctorales/dea/chercheurs-invites-dea/?tx_wfqbe_pi1%5Bshowpage%5D%5B11%5D=6 . 9 November 2013 . dead .
  8. Web site: Int'l French Theatre Festival ends on a positive note . thedailystar.net . 22 April 2009 . 7 February 2014 . 21 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140221212513/http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=85024 . live .
  9. Web site: Epiphany that unlocked a genius . Times Higher Education . 11 May 2001 . 4 November 2013 . 2 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131102211027/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/159675.article . live .
  10. Web site: Details . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064211/http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/details/38865-17338625.html . dead . 4 March 2016 . Epaper.telegraphindia.com . 4 November 2013.
  11. Web site: French honour for CU professor . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014202003/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-04-04/kolkata/28118659_1_french-honour-french-ambassador-french-culture . dead . 14 October 2013 . 4 April 2010 . . 4 November 2013.
  12. Web site: Dr. Chinmoy Guha's speech on Leela Roy's birth centenary Part-5 . YouTube . 12 August 2010 . 4 November 2013 . 25 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140125211755/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5nQcUMNpmc . live .
  13. Web site: Dr Chinmoy Guha conferred "Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite". Consulate General of France in Calcutta. 30 November 2019. 12 December 2019. 12 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191212011548/https://in.ambafrance.org/Dr-Chinmoy-Guha-conferred-Chevalier-de-l-Ordre-national-du-Merite-17319. live.
  14. Web site: ফ্রান্সের সম্মান চিন্ময় গুহকে. Ei Samay. 17 November 2019. 28 November 2019.
  15. Web site: Sahitya Akademi Press Release 2019. Sahitya Akademi.
  16. Web site: Bengali Bhasha Mandakini Series. 21 August 2020. 26 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210226151903/https://bengali.bharatavani.in/media-type/bengali-bhasha-mandakini-series/. dead.