BENGALI PROFESSORS IN TOP PREMIER INSTITUTIONS OF INDIA:

BENGALI PROFESSORS IN INDIAN INSTITUTIONS:

Are Bengalis over represented as professors in India's Top Premier Institutions? The below list will not contain Premier Bengal Institutions like Jadavpur University, IIT Kharagpur, Indian Statistical Institute, Asiatic Society, Bose Institute, Saha Institute of Nuclear Research and all other West Bengal based Institutions of National Importance as the number of Bengali professors in these institutions are well over 95%. We are more interested to know about the Bengali Professors outside West Bengal working in Top 50Research Institutes of India in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). Lets check it out:

IIT PATNA COMPUTER SCIENCE FACULTY:

1.Dr. Abyayananda Maiti - Bengali
2.Dr. Arijit Mondal- Bengali
3.Dr. Asif Ekbal
4.Prof. Jimson Mathew
5.Dr. Joydeep Chandra- Bengali
6.Dr. Mayank Agarwal
7.Prof. Rajiv Misra
8.Dr. Raju Halder- Bengali
9.Dr. Samrat Mondal- Bengali
10.Prof. Somanath Tripathy
11.Dr. Sourav Kumar Dandapat- Bengali
12.Dr. Sriparna Saha- Bengali
13.Dr. Suman Kumar Maji- Bengali
14.Dr. Chandranath Adak- Bengali
15.Dr. Satendra Kumar

9 out of 15 are Bengali professors. That's a whopping 40%. 

TIFR: DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES FACULTY: MUMBAI

1.SUDIPTA MAITI - Bengali
2.AMARTYA BOSE- Bengali
3.JYOTISHMAN DASGUPTA- Bengali
4.ANKONA DATTA- Bengali
5.DEEPA KHUSHALANI
6.SRI RAMA KOTI AINAVARAPU
7.S. MAZUMDAR- Bengali
8.KALAIVANAN NAGARAJAN
9.MALAY PATRA- Bengali
10.VIVEK POLSHETTIWAR
11.R. VENKATRAMANI
12.VAMSEE VOORA

6 out of 12 are Bengali professors. That's a whopping 50%.

TIFR: CENTRE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS FACULTY: BANGALORE:

1.Karthik Adimurthi
2.Agnid Banerjee - Bengali
3.Imran Biswas- Bengali
4.Aravinda C S
5.Nishant Chandgotia
6.Praveen Chandrashekar
7.Shyam Sundar Ghoshal- Bengali
8.Ali Hyder
9.Sandeep K
10.Debabrata Karmakar- Bengali
11.Ujjwal Koley- Bengali
12.Venky Krishnan
13.Debayan Maity - Bengali
14.Sivaguru R
15.Koushik Ramachandran
16.Atul Shekhar
17.Prashanth Srinivasan
18.Jim Thomas
19.Sreekar Vadlamani

6 Bengali professors out of 19. That's a solid 31%. Also, by checking the number of Bengalis pursuing PHDs in this institution , I can vouch that this number is going to go up in the near future. CHALIYE JAO DADA!!

IIT BOMBAY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY:

1.Kishore Chatterjee - Bengali
2.Vivek Agarwal
3.Sandeep Anand
4.Kumar Appaiah
5.Maryam Shojaei Baghini
6.Himanshu J. Bahirat
7.Baylon G. Fernandes
8.Madhu N. Belur
9.Debanjan Bhowmik- Bengali
10.Subhananda Chakrabarti- Bengali
11.Debraj Chakraborty- Bengali
12.Shiladri Chakraborty- Bengali
13.Mukul C. Chandorkar
14.Prasanna Chaporkar
15.Subhasis Chaudhuri- Bengali
16.Madhav P. Desai
17.Bikash Kumar Dey- Bengali
18.Siddhartha P Duttagupta- Bengali
19.Vikram M. Gadre
20.Swaroop Ganguly- Bengali
21.Udayan Ganguly- Bengali
22.Manoj Gopalkrishnan
23.Shalabh Gupta
24.Nikhil Karamchandani
25.Abhay Karandikar
26.Gaurav S Kasbekar
27.Anil Kottantharayil
28.Anupama Kowli
29.Anil Kulkarni
30.Shrikrishna V. Kulkarni
31.Apurba Laha- Bengali
32.Saurabh Lodha
33.Souvik Mahapatra- Bengali
34.D. Manjunath
35.Sharayu Moharir
36.Sandip Mondal- Bengali
37.Dwaipayan Mukherjee- Bengali
38.Jayanta Mukherjee- Bengali
39.Satish Mulleti
40.Bhaskaran Muralidharan
41.Jayakrishnan U Nair
42.Pradeep R. Nair
43.Debasattam Pal- Bengali
44.Prem C. Pandey
45.Mahesh B. Patil
46.Sachin Patkar
47.Harish K. Pillai
48.Sibi Raj B Pillai
49.Preeti Rao
50.Kasturi Saha- Bengali
51.Amit Sethi
52.Narendra S Shiradkar
53.Anshuman Shukla
54.Virendra Singh
55.Shreevardhan A. Soman
56.Laxmeesha Somappa
57.Virendra R. Sule
58.Siddharth Tallur
59.Ashwin A. Tulapurkar
60.Rajbabu Velmurugan
61.Saravanan Vijayakumaran
62.Rajesh H. Zele
63.Dipankar Saha- Bengali

18 out of 63. That's 28%. Not bad. But we can do better. Bengalis need to watch out.

The Boltzmann Medal (or Boltzmann Award) is a prize awarded to physicists that obtain new results concerning statistical mechanics; it is named after the celebrated physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. Its an International Award. And a Bengali got it in 2022.

TIFR: SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, MUMBAI FACULTY

1.Jatin Batra

2.Umang Bhaskar

3.Arkadev Chattopadhyay- Bengali

4.Shibashis Guha- Bengali

5.Prahladh Harsha

6.Sandeep K Juneja

7.Mrinal Kumar

8.Hariharan Narayanan

9.Vinod M. Prabhakaran

10.Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

11.N Raja

12.Ramprasad Saptharishi

13.Pranab Sen- Bengali

14.Abhishek Sinha- Bengali

15.Akshayaram Srinivasan

16.Piyush Srivastava

17.Kavitha Telikepalli

18.Rahul Vaze

4 out of 18. That's a commendable 22%. But we can do better.

TIFR CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES, HYDERABAD FACULTY:

1.Vipin Agarwal

2.Mustansir Barma

3.Adish Dani

4.Tamal Das - Bengali

5.Kanchan Garai- Bengali

6.Soumya Ghosh- Bengali

7.Ritesh Haldar- Bengali

8.Manish Jaiswal

9.Smarajit Karmakar- Bengali

10.Ullas S Kolthur

11.Anukul Jana- Bengali

12.Kalyaneswar Mandal- Bengali

13.Aprotim Mazumder- Bengali

14.P. K. Madhu

15.Jagannath Mondal- Bengali

16.Kaustubh R. Mote

17.Saroj Kumar Nandi- Bengali

18.Pabitra K. Nayak

19.Prasad Perlekar

20.Raghunathan Ramakrishnan

21.Karthik V. Raman

22.Kabir Ramola

23.Pranav R. Shirhatti

24.Prashant Kumar Singh

25.Mrinal Srivastava

26.Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli

27.T. N. Narayanan

28.Anand Vaidya

29.Pramodh Vallurupalli

30.Aneesh Tazhe Veetil

31.Monika Vig

32.Darshan G. Joshi

10 out of 32 are Bengali Professors. That's a solid 31%. This Institution is for Chemistry.

TIFR:INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES, MUMBAI

The faculty members carry out cutting-edge research, provide intellectual leadership, define research directions for theoretical sciences, and provide the basis for a continuing and permanent scientific culture at the Centre.

The scientific questions that drive the present ICTS faculty research are from the broad areas of Complex systems: Non-linear dynamics and Data assimilation, Statistical physics, Fluid dynamics and turbulence, Condensed matter physics, Physical biology; Space-time physics: String theory and Quantum field theory, Astrophysical relativity; Mathematics: Differential geometry, Mathematical physics, Dynamical systems, Data assimilation, Monsoon dynamics, Analysis of partial differential equations and applications, Algebraic Geometry and Probability Theory​. 

1.Parameswaran Ajith

2.Amit Apte

3.Siva Athreya

4.Anirban Basak - Bengali

5.Riddhipratim Basu- Bengali

6.Pallavi Bhat

7.Subhro Bhattacharjee- Bengali

8.Chandan Dasgupta- Bengali

9.Rukmini Dey- Bengali

10.Avinash Dhar- Bengali

11.Abhishek Dhar- Bengali

12.Rajesh Gopakumar

13.Rama Govindarajan

14.Bala Iyer

15.Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy

16.Manas Kulkarni

17.Prayush Kumar

18.Anupam Kundu- Bengali

19.Rajaram Nityananda

20.Pranav Pandit

21.Loganayagam R

22.Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

23.Suvrat Raju

24.Mythily Ramaswamy

25.Sumathi Rao

26.Sthitadhi Roy- Bengali

27.Joseph Samuel

28.Samriddhi Sankar Ray- Bengali

29.Ashoke Sen- Bengali

30.Jim Thomas

31.Shashi Thutupalli

32.Vishal Vasan

33.Spenta R. Wadia

11 out of 33 are Bengali Professors. That's a good 33%. Bengalis keep it up.

And the list goes on and on. J.N.U, IISC and all other prominent research institutions of India has a minimum 20% Bengali professor in their Departments. That says a lot about Bengali people who still give preference to academia than money. Modern India is unthinkable without the contribution of these great people who impart the best knowledge to the next generation day in day out.

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