Speaker Profile
Jayanta Sengupta
About
Educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, and the Universities of Calcutta and Cambridge, Jayanta Sengupta is Director, Alipore Museum, and former Director of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. Before joining the museum profession, he taught History at Jadavpur University and the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of At the Margins: Discourses of Development, Democracy and Regionalism in Orissa (Oxford University Press, 2015), Those Noble Edifices: The Raj Bhavans of Bengal (Victoria Memorial Hall, 2019) and two books of essays in Bengali. He is also co-editor of The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations (Routledge, 2024).
Sessions
The Forgotten Indian Prisoners Of World War II
KaLaM Hub
With: Gautam Hazarika
Gautam Hazarika discusses the price India paid in the eastern theatre of war. In conversation with Jayanta Sengupta
Fri, 23 Jan3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Literature
Jukti Tokko Aar Deshbhag
KaLaM Lawns
With: Bratya Basu, Srijato, Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, Shamya Dasgupta
Bratya Basu, Srijato, Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay and Shamya Dasgupta discuss how Partition shaped Ghatak’s cinema. In conversation with Jayanta Sengupta
Sat, 24 Jan12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Literature