Tushar Kanjilal

Tushar Kanjilal
Born (1935-03-01) March 1, 1935
Noakhali, British India
Occupation Social worker
Spouse(s) Bina Kanjilal
Children Three children
Parent(s) Dwigendralal Kanjilal
Awards Padma Shri

Tushar Kanjilal (born 1 March 1935)[1] is an Indian social worker, political activist, environmentalist, writer and a former headmaster of Rangabelia High School.[2] He was the founder of a non governmental organization, which merged with the Tagore Society for Rural Development, a social organization working for the upliftment of the rural people in Sunderbans region, in the Indian state of West Bengal.[3]

Born to Dwigendralal Kanjilal[4] in Noakhali, in the present day Bangladesh, Kanjilal's family migrated to West Bengal before the Indian independence.[5] He was attracted to Marxist ideologies from a young age and had a frequently disrupted education due to his activism. After his marriage to Bina, he settled in Rangabelia, a small hamlet in the Sunderbans region, where he stayed with his family of three children, Tanima, Tania and Tanmoy, and worked as the headmaster of the local high school.[5] There, he started his social service, founding an organization, which was later merged with the Tagore Society for Rural Development. He has also been involved in environmental activism[6] and has written a book, Who Killed the Sunderbans?, which deals with the issue of the destruction of the mangrove forests of Sunderbans.[7]

The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1986.[8] He received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 2008.[1] Kanjilal is in the process of founding an institute, Interpretation Complex, which is aimed at dealing with the problems of the Sunderbans region.[5] He resides in Kolkata, West Bengal.[5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tushar Kanjilal - Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2008 Recipient - Application of Science & Technology for Rural Development". Jamnalal Bajaj Awards. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Zoom Info profile". Zoom Info. 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Amitav Ghosh (2014). The Hungry Tide: A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 352. ISBN 9780547525204.
  4. ↑ Board of Management. TSRD.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Rural vision. India Today.
  6. ↑ "Sea's Rise in India Buries Islands and a Way of Life". The Dispatch.com. 11 April 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  7. ↑ Tushar Kanjilal (2000). Who Killed the Sunderbans?. PA. ASIN B00BP0IMRM.
  8. ↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

Further reading

  • Tushar Kanjilal (2000). Who Killed the Sunderbans?. PA. ASIN B00BP0IMRM.


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