Jadavpur University
| Jadavpur University যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় | |
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| Motto | To Know Is To Grow |
| Established | 1955 |
| Type | Public |
| Chancellor | H.E. The Governor of West Bengal |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Pradip Narayan Ghosh |
| Students | 9000 |
| Undergraduates | 5000 |
| Postgraduates | 4000 |
| Location | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Campus | Jadavpur (urban; 58 acres) and Salt Lake (suburban; 26 acres) |
| Nickname | Jadavpur |
| Website | www.jaduniv.edu.in |
Jadavpur University is located in the eastern metropolis of Kolkata in India. It is considered to be one of the foremost centres of research and learning in India .
It has two campuses - the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake, approximately 12.6 kilometres (7.8 mi) and 8.8 kilometres (5.5 mi) from the city centre respectively. A third campus is due to open at the site of the erstwhile National Instruments (CSIR), located opposite the main campus along the Raja S.C. Mullick Road.
The University Grants Commission has identified Jadavpur University as one of the top five universities in the country with "Potential for Excellence". In addition, Jadavpur University has been accorded the highest grading and rated as a "Five Star University" in India by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. It has also been nominated as one of the leading institutions for TEQIP, a World Bank funded program in India..
The university is organized into three faculties – Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Engineering and Technology and Faculty of Science. It has a student body of approximately 9,000 including undergraduate and postgraduate students.
History :
National Council of Education, Bengal
The first university in modern India was setup by the British in Calcutta in 1861 as a means of spreading western philosophical thought among the elite in India and to create in the words of Lord Macaulcay, “a class of Indians who would be Indian in blood and colour but western in thought and ideas.” This initiative was furthered by the passing of the Universities Act of 1904. This resulted in the reorganization of the Calcutta University’s Senate and Syndicate by the nomination of more white members into them, which in turn would enable the government to control its policies. The government also decided to disaffiliate many private Indian colleges, which had come up lately and were regarded by the Government as hot beds of nationalist agitation. The measures stirred the educated middle class to move for alternative systems of education. The nationalists in the freedom struggle of India dubbed Calcutta University, another pillar of India’s education movement, as “Goldighir Ghulamkhana”, or the slave house of “Goldighi”, with reference to the lake adjacent to Calcutta University, and the number of graduates it churned out who were used in British merchant offices as clerks. Hence, the need for setting up an institution which would impart education along nationalist lines was strongly felt by the luminaries of the period. The real impetus though was provided by the partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon, the Governor-General of India, into East Bengal on the one hand (the area that was eventually to become Bangladesh in 1971) and West Bengal and Orissa on the other. On 16 November 1905, the Landholders Society organized a meeting at Park Street, attended by 1500 delegates, including Rabindranath Tagore, Aurobindo Ghosh, Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick and Brajendra Kishore Roychowdhury. The idea of the National Council of Education was mooted here. In a meeting held on 9 November 1905 at the Field and Academic Club, Subodh Chandra Mullick pledged Rupees one lakh for the foundation of a National University in Bengal. The objective in setting up the institution that was to challenge the British rule over education by offering education to the masses 'on national lines and under national control'. Generous sums of money were also donated by Brojendra Kishore Roy Choudhury, Maharaja Suryya Kanto Acharya Choudhury and Rashbihari Ghosh, who was appointed the first president of the university.
Bengal Technical Institute
Almost on the same day that the National Council of Education was set up, a rival organisation, the Society for Promotion of Technical Education in Bengal, was set up by Taraknath Palit,. The Bengal Technical Institute came into being on July 25, 1906 under the umbrella of the SPTE with the objective of spreading technical education among the masses in Bengal.
Merger of the Bengal Technical Institute with the National Council of Education
Jadavpur University
The two organisations fought it out for a few years until the SPTE was amalgamated with the NCE in 1910 and the Bengal Technical Institute passed into its hands. In 1921 the Institute became the first in India to introduce Chemical Engineering as a discipline. By 1940, the institute had outgrown itself as more than just a small institute and was virtually functioning as an independent university.
Post Independence period and formation of Jadavpur University
After Indian Independence in 1947, the West Bengal State Legislature, with the concurrence of the Government of India, enacted the Jadavpur University Act, 1955 to convert the institute into Jadavpur University with full autonomy on (December 24, 1955). Since then the university has observed this date in its calendar as Convocation Day.
Jadavpur University has had its share of ups and downs since its formation as an autonomous university. On the one hand, this period has seen the university’s growth as one of the foremost centres of the excellence in the country, while on the other hand, this period has also seen it being affected by naxalite violence, which claimed among others, the life of Prof. Gopal Chandra Sen, who was the Vice Chancellor of the university at the time of his death.
University emblem
The emblem of the university is a three-flamed lamp encircled by lotus petals. The lamp represents knowledge. The three flames represent Intellectual Training, Cultivation of Emotions and Imagination, and Spiritual Development. Petals of the lotus on the periphery represent Fine Arts and Culture. It was designed by Nandalal Bose, a key member of the Bengal school of art, who was also one of the great masters at Kala Bhavan in Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan. As the university celebrated its Golden Jubilee on December 24, 2005, a special emblem (see above) was created to commemorate the occasion, and the motto 'To Know is to Grow' was coined. This date was also the centenary of the National Council of Education.
Campus
Jadavpur University is a semi residential university, which at present operates out of two urban campuses, one in Jadavpur (58 acres (230,000 m2)) and another in Salt Lake (26 acres (110,000 m2)).
Jadavpur Campus
The main campus of Jadavpur University is bordered by the Raja S.C. Mullick Road, the Jadavpur Station Road, the Kolkata Suburban Rail–South Line and the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR). The present campus of the university was first leased to the NCE in 1922 by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation when Dinabandhu Chittaranjan Das was the mayor. On the 11th of March 1922 the foundation stone of Aurobindo Bhavan, which is currently the main administrative centre of the university, was laid. The seat of engineering was shifted to the Aurobindo Bhavan in 1924 when the building was completed. The Jadavpur campus houses most of the departments of the three faculties- Engineering, Science and Arts in addition to the Jadavpur University Central Library and the Blue Earth Workshop. It is adjacent to research institutes like the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology and the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute. The architecture of the campus is typical sub–continental in nature with flat roofs rectangular plans. Some of the older building especially in the engineering faculty and the Aurobindo Bhavan in particular, have a strong Bengali influence which can be seen in the design of the pillars and even the wooden doors and windows.
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Landmarks on the Main Campus
Some of the prominent landmarks on the engineering side include the Blue Earth Workshop –which in addition to being among the foremost centres of learning techniques in workshop technology, also has the dubious distinction of having been used by students affected by the naxalite violence to manufacture blow guns, the “gachchtola”, the “jheel paar”, ashirwad canteen, the windmill and the “green zone”. On the arts and science side, some of the prominent landmarks include the English department “ledge”, the “Bhanga Bridge”, worldview bookstore, Open Air Theatre and “Milan Da’s” canteen.
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Salt Lake City Campus
The Salt Lake City Campus is a newer campus and was setup after it was felt that the space on the main campus was insufficient to meet the demands of setting up departments for emerging fields of study. At present, five engineering departments operate out of the Salt Lake campus – Information Technology, Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering, Printing Technology, Construction Engineering and Power Engineering. The main ground at the Salt Lake campus has been leased out to the Cricket Association of Bengal and it often plays host to various inter and intra state cricket matches.
National Instruments Campus
The New National Instruments Campus
Jadavpur University has recently acquired the erstwhile National Instruments (CSIR), becoming the first Indian university to acquire a sick research unit. It is located on a 9 acre plot opposite to the main campus. After renovation, the new campus is expected to add much needed space for new laboratories especially for the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, and Computer Science & Engineering. The NIL campus is to be connected to the main campus by means of an underground tunnel so as to bypass the traffic on the busy Raja S.C. Mullick Road.
Affiliated Institutes
In addition to being a unitary university, it also has other institutes like the Jawahari Devi Birla Institute of Commerce and Management, Jadavpur Vidyapith as well as the Institute of Business Management affiliated to it, which operate out of independent campuses. While these institutes have their own independent curriculum as well as examination systems, the final degree is offered by Jadavpur University.
Faculty Housing
Unlike most universities which provide accommodation to faculty and staff on campus, due to a shortage of space, faculty housing is provided both within the campus as well in the areas in the vicinity of the university. This includes housing in areas like Santoshpur and Tollygunge.
Jadavpur University Press and Publication House
Jadavpur University Press
The university press is used to publish all documents of record in the university including PhD theses, question papers and journals. On 26 October 2010 the institution announced plans to launch a publication house, named Jadavpur University Press, though no date was given. The main focus of the publication house will be to publish textbooks and thesis written by research scholars and authors from all universities.
Administration and Organization
Jadavpur University is an autonomous state university. The Governor of the state of West Bengal is the chancellor of the university. However, the daily administration is handled under the leadership of the vice chancellor of the university, who is appointed by the Governor on the recommendations of the government of west Bengal. The Vice Chancellor is assisted in his duties by the Pro Vice Chancellor who is de facto a senior faculty member of faculty of engineering and technology. Within the university’s administrative structure, the highest body is the university court. It consists of members elected by the staff members of the university from amongst themselves as well as members of the alumni. Next in hierarchy comes the executive council of the university, which takes all the decisions relating to the day to day functioning of the university. It consists of staff and student members from all the three faculties of the universities. The student members of the three faculties finding representation on the executive council are the chairmen of the three student councils of unions. The three faculties in turn have their own councils which are changed every four years and differ in their compositions. The engineering faculty for example has members who are nominated either by the Vice Chancellor or are invited from the various schools functioning under the faculty. The Arts and Science Faculties have member from the affiliated institutes like J.D. Birla in addition to members from the respective faculties. However, a common factor in each of the three faculties is that each department is represented on the council by the Head of the Department and at least one other faculty member of the department. Outside these councils are the offices of the registrar, finance officer, controller of examinations, university engineer, faculty secretaries, placement coordinator and deans of the three faculties and students welfare which are responsible for the administrative tasks delegated to them. Finally, at the departmental level are the Heads of Departments.
Academics
Admission to Jadavpur University is highly competitive, as it consistently ranks amongst the best colleges in India. For admissions to the Engineering Faculty at the undergraduate level, students are admitted through the WBJEE, an entrance examination open to students from all over India. Unlike in a large number of states, there is no domicile quota in JU as well as for the remaining engineering colleges admitting students through the WBJEE. Postgraduate students in engineering are admitted through GATE. Admission to the Arts and Science Faculties is by means of individual examinations for each of the departments at the undergraduate as well as the postgraduate levels. Weight age is given to marks obtained at the higher secondary level for undergraduate admissions at the undergraduate level for postgraduate level.
Schools and Centres of Excellence
To facilitate interdisciplinary learning and research in diverse fields, there are a number of schools and centre for studies. Some of the major research ventures undertaken by these schools include the pioneering work done by the School of Environmental Studies in highlighting the presence of arsenic in groundwater in countries like India and Bangladesh and the development of the first alcohol based car by the School of Automobile Engineering.
School of Environmental Studies
The various inter –disciplinary schools in the university are:
1. School of Advanced Studies on Industrial Pollution Control Engineering
2. School of Bioscience Engineering
3. School of Cultural Texts and Records
4. School of Education Technology
5. School of Energy Studies
6. School of Environmental Radiation and Archaeological Sciences
7. School of Environmental Studies
8. School of Illumination Science, Engineering and Design
9. School of International Relations and Strategic Studies
10. School of Laser Science and Engineering
11. School of Languages
12. School of Material Science and Nano Technology
13. School of Media, Communication and Culture
14. School of Mobile Computing and Communication
15. School of Natural Product Studies
16. School of Water Resources Engineering
17. School of Women's Studies
18. School of Nuclear Studies and Application
19. School of Automobile Engineering
The centres for studies are usually directly associated with a particular department and the various centres in Jadavpur University are:
1. Centre for African Literatures & Culture
2. Centre on Ambedkar Studies
3. Aurobindo Study Centre
4. Centre for Cognitive Science
5. Centre for Experiments in Social & Behavioural Sciences
6. Centre for Computer Aided Design
7. Centre for Canadian Studies
8. Centre for Condensed Matter Physics Research
9. Centre for Counselling Services and Studies in Self Development
10. C.V. Raman Centre for Music and Physics
11. Centre for Medicinal Food and Applied Nutrition
12. Centre for Distributed Computing
13. Centre for European Studies
14. Centre for Embedded System in Instrumentation
15. Hariprasanna Biswas Centre for Indo-China Cultural Studies
16. Centre for Human Settlement Planning
17. Centre for IC Design and Fabrication
18. Centre for Indology
19. Centre for Knowledge Based System
20. Centre for Language Studies
21. Centre for Latin American Literature & Culture
22. Centre for Marxian Studies
23. Centre for Mathematical Biology & Ecology
24. Centre for Micro-Processor Application
25. Centre for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research
26. Centre for Plasma Studies
27. Centre for Quality Construction
28. Centre for Quality Management System
29. Centre for Refugee Studies
30. Centre for Relativity and Cosmology Research
31. Centre for Surface Chemistry
32. Swami Vivekananda Centre for Technical Manpower Development
33. Centre for Theatre Studies
34. Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures
35. Centre for Transportation Studies
36. Centre for Welding Technology
37. Centre for Yoga
38. V. Ravi Chandran Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences
39. IMPACT
Recently, the Indian American Scientist Manick Sorcar assisted in the opening of a one of a kind laser animation lab in India under the School of Illumination Science, Engineering and Design.
International Collaborations
Internship opportunities to pursue research in foreign institutes in USA and Europe are available to students at JU. Engineering and Science students can avail of DAAD and ERASMUS fellowships in Europe. Dual degree doctorate programs exist in partnership with Virginia Tech. . In addition the university has collaborations with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds Metropolitan University, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Staffordshire University and International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
Library and Digital Resources
JU Central Library
Jadavpur University has one of the largest libraries among universities in India. It has the third largest library within the state of West Bengal. There is a Central Library on the Main Campus in Jadavpur and another smaller one at the Salt Lake Campus. Besides these, the thirty three departments, and schools have their own libraries.
The Central Library or CL is housed in three storey building near the third gate of the main campus. It has the biggest stock of books, journals, theses, dissertations, pamphlets, maps and microfilms in the university. The total record of books in the university is around 600,000. In addition there are around 80,000 journals, 13000 theses and dissertations and 37,000 non book materials. The Centre for Digital Library and Documentation known simply as the Digital Library or DL is housed in the new annex building of the Central Library. It was setup in 2003 to assist in the digitization of data on campus. The learning resource centre of the DL has around sixty nodes for accessing digital data both on the internet as well as the internal database of the university.
Rankings
While most Indian engineering colleges barring IITs emphasize on undergraduate teaching, Jadavpur University is primarily recognized on research, after IITs it has been ranked sixth in research output in India for its engineering faculty. Some other rankings are:
- Ranked 2nd in India by IAS,2009 or
- Faculty of Engineering and Technology ranked 10th in India, 2009 (Mint C-Fore)
- Faculty of Engineering and Technology ranked 12th in India, 2009 (Outlook)
- Faculty of Arts ranked 2nd in India (India Today 2008)
- Faculty of Engineering and Technology ranked 1st in India (India Today 2007)
- Faculty of Engineering and Technology ranked 10th in India (Career360 2011)
Student Life
Unlike most Indian universities, Jadavpur University has the distinction of having three separate faculties of learning within its ambit – Arts, Engineering & Technology and Science. This creates the ground for a vibrant student life. However, the absence of a residential campus denies the students many of the additional facilities which are usually available students in other universities.
Student Housing
As Jadavpur University is primarily a non – residential university, housing on campus is usually quite difficult to get. Accommodation is usually reserved for students coming from out of the state and financially weak students. Some of the Masters and Research scholars are accommodated on the hostel within the main campus. The main boys’ hostel however is located near the Jadavpur Police Station on Prince Anwar Shah Road at a walking distance from the university. The women’s’ hostel is located on the main campus near the University Guest house. Hence, usually most of the students from towns and cities other than Kolkata take up accommodation in guest houses and as paying guests in residences in the vicinity of the campuses.
Student Unions
Student bodies are an important aspect of student life inside Jadavpur University. All the three faculties have their own student representative bodies also known as student unions. The members to these bodies are elected by students of the respective faculties. The elections to these bodies are held once a year and are keenly followed both inside as well as outside campus. Some of the groups contesting these elections are affiliates of the major political parties, while others are independent student bodies. The interest in student elections is the most in the Arts Faculty where the student political movement is a lot more ideologically motivated than the engineering or science faculties.
Student Clubs and Activities
There are a number of student clubs and associations in the university. Some of these are:
- Quiz Forum and Debating Society: The quiz forum and debating societies are two separate societies – Enquiry, the Quiz Club and the JUDS, which have been functioning under one umbrella. Both these societies have been successful in not just promoting the arts of quizzing and debating on the campus, but have also produced quizzers and debaters of national repute. The annual inter college events of the QFDS, namely Qriosity and VOX POP are two of the biggest literary events in Kolkata.
- Jadavpur University Photography Club: One of the most active societies on campus, the JUPC encourages avid shutterbugs to develop and portray their creativity from behind the lens.
- Jadavpur University Mountaineering Club: The members of the JUMC can choose between rock climbing and trekking. Annual trips are held to the rocky mountains of Purulia and at least one glacier in the upper Himalayas.
- Jadavpur University Chess Club: The Jadavpur University Chess Club is a nascent venture of chess enthusiasts at promoting the sport among the students of the university. It organizes an annual chess competition on the birthday of the legendary Bobby Fisher.
- Jadavpur University Music Club: It is one of the oldest clubs in the university and has produced some of the most versatile classical singers in Bengal. The members of the club actively take part in inter-college events at the national as well as the regional level, including at the South Asian Universities Youth Festival.
In addition to these clubs, there are numerous other activities which are pursued by the students of the university including sports like cricket, football, table tennis etc., street plays, theatrics and robotics. The various student unions organize annual tournaments in sports at the inter-departmental levels in the months of august and September.
Sanskriti
The annual cultural festival (or culfest) of Jadavpur University is called Sanskriti, which in Bengali or Hindi means Culture. Each of the three faculties organizes separate editions which spread over a total of a fortnight. It is usually held over the months of February and March. The festivals feature a series of events which portray the cultural talents of not just the participating students but also established artists from across the region. The highlight of the events is usually the live performance, featuring some of the best musical acts of the region on the last day of each of the editions.
Srijan
The annual technical festival of Jadavpur University is called “Srijan”, which in the vernacular means an act of creation. It is organized by the students of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology in the month of March with the aim of promoting the spirit of innovation and discovery among the participants and features competitions in coding, robotics, hardware designing and even mathematical puzzles.
VOX POP
VOX POP refers to debate of Jadavpur University. It started off as an event for fresher’s to showcase their oratorical skills in the Policy debating format but has since evolved into a multi-format national level debate highlighting the ways in which the Voice of the people is represented. It is held twice every year, once for fresher students to be selected into the debating society and then again as an inter-college event between some of the best colleges from across the region.
Qriosity
Qriosity is the annual quizzing festival of Jadavpur University. It is one of the biggest quizfests in the country and draws enthusiasts and quiz buffs from across the nation. Qriosity 2011 saw the participation of around 1500 quizzards in 7 different events which were hosted by reputed quiz masters including Joy Bhattacharya, the CEO of Kolkata Knight Riders.
YESM
The Young Economist Students’ Meet (YESM) is an initiative pioneered by the students of the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University. The basic objective of the meet is to create a common platform for the students and scholars of Economics, thereby offering opportunities to young minds to know and grow through interaction with each other and the stalwarts of the field.
Student Rivalry
There is intense competitiveness between the students of the three faculties as well as between Jadavpur University and that of the other city colleges like Presidency College, Kolkata and St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. This has been aggravated by the transfer of the best students from the other colleges after their graduation especially in the field of Arts to Jadavpur University for their post- graduation.
Jadavpur University Alumni
Alumni Association
Alumni Association and Triguna Sen Auditorium
The Alumni Association, one of the oldest in the country, was founded in 1921 by the ex-students of National Council of Education. Prof. Hiralal Roy A. B. (Harvard) was its first secretary and Dr. Abinesh Ch. Bhattacharjee, Ph.D. (Berlin) its first president. Shri Kiron Roy, who was an alumnus and an ex-student of MIT, founded his Electrical firm in Calcutta and helped the College of Engineering and Technology in various ways. The alumni of Jadavpur living abroad helped fellow-Jadavpurians to be admitted to various universities and research institutions in Boston, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Cornell, Edinburg, Munich etc. For the first few years of its existence, the activities of the Alumni Association were mainly educational, practically confined to the guidance of and assistance to the NCE and the development of the BTI (Bengal Technical Institute). The connections of the Alumni Association with the NCE, the BTI and, later, the College of Engineering & Technology (CET) considerably helped these institutions to spread and improve engineering and technological education in India. The NCE was a private organization. Its formation, operation and development had to be funded entirely by public donations, with no Government support. The Alumni Association became a vital factor in the growth of the NCE and development of the CET. The construction of the K. C. Roy Hall in the Electrical Engineering Building, expansion of the Chemical Engineering Building, construction of the Gymnasium (now Indoor Stadium), a revolving Theatrical Stage, the Wind Mills for pumping out the water from the Play Grounds are all Alumni creations. As regards the Alumni Building, the present home of the Association, a two storied building was built in 1941 at the north-western corner of the University playgrounds. The cost of construction was Rs. 18,000/-, fully financed by the Alumni. The original name of the building was the “Old Boys Home”. When girl ex-students became a reality, the home was renamed as the “Alumni Building”. After the formation of the Jadavpur University in 1955 the rules were modified to include ex-students of the University as alumni. The name of the Association itself was formally changed and registered in 1990 as “The Alumni Association, NCE Bengal and Jadavpur University.
Notable Faculty and Alumni
Aurobindo Ghosh was the first Principal of the Bengal National College and among the teachers were luminaries like Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Surendranath Banerjee, Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, Radha Kumud Mukherjee and Benoy Kumar Sarkar. Pioneering efforts came from such dedicated and learned people like Prof. Hemchandra Das Gupta, Prof. Hiralal Roy, Prof. Satish Chandra Bhattacharyya, and many others, who introduced new disciplines and domains of engineering and changed the dimensions of the colonial engineering education. Their work was carried further by Dr. Triguna Sen, Prof. Hemchandra Guha, Prof. Karuna Roy, Prof. M. L. Schroff., Prof. Tuhin Roy, Prof. Gopal Chandra Sen and many others. The University has been enriched by contributions from people like Prof. Amartya Sen, Prof. Sudhindranath Datta, Prof. Buddhadeb Bosu and Prof.Panchanan Chakravorty and many others who steered the early progress of the Arts and Science Faculties-the new additions to the original Faculty of Engineering & Technology.
Some of the other notable alumni and former teachers of the university are:
- Badal Sircar: Theatre Personality
- M.N.Roy: Founder of CPI and Communist Party of Mexico
- Subir Raha: Former Director of ONGC
- Moon Moon Sen: Bengali Film Actress
- John Mason: School Teacher
- Kunal Basu: Author and Professor
- Sukanta Chaudhuri: Bengali Scholar of English Literature during the renaissance period.
- Jasodhara Bagchi: Former chairperson of WB Women's Commission and Founder of School of Women's Studies
- Parambrata Chatterjee: Actor
- Suhel Seth: Consultant and Actor
- Rimi B. Chatterjee: Author
- Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta: Bengali Scholar
- Sankar Chatterjee: Paleontologist
- Sudipta Sengupta: Mountaineer and Professor of Structural Geology
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen: Indian Poet, Novelist and Academic
- Robert Antoine: Jesuit Priest, Sanskritist and Musician.
- Barnita Bagchi: Indian feminist and academic
- Ranjon Ghoshal: Musician and founder of India’s first band.
- Nayan Chanda: Newman and author
- Tathagata Roy: Engineer and Politician
- Arnab Ray: Blogger and columnist
- Ananta Charan Sukla: Philospoher
- Julius J. Lipner: Professor and Philosopher
- Sujan Chakraborty: Politician
- Debabrata Goswami: Indian Spectroscopist
- Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay: Computer Scientist and IT Advisor
- Saroj Ghose: Padma Bhushan and Former Director General of National Council of Science Museums, India
- Bickram Ghosh: Percussionist
- Kurchi Dasgupta: Painter, writer and translator
- K. S. Dasgupta: Scientist and Director of Indian Insitute of Space Science Technology
- Jayant Kripalani: Actor and Scriptwriter.
- Anupam Roy: Singer, Lyricist and Composer
- Onir: Director, Writer and Producer
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