Amitava Bhattacharya, Founder and full time director at Banglanatak dot com, is an engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur with 19 years of work experience worldwide. Amitava is recipient of Chevening Leadership & Excellence Scholarship from the London School of Economics. He was nominated as Eastern Zone runnerup in Times Lead India Contest, 2007. In ten years time, he led his organization banglanatak dot com to grow to 65 persons well qualified team (with over 350 person years of development sector experience) and has worked at about 30000 villages across 23 states of India.Amitava has innovated and led both of these initiatives mentioned below, which has contributed immensely in the development process and also in pro-poor growth. The one being: Theater as a tool for grass-root communication, which includes outreach, capacity building of local stakeholders and doing social research – all using theater. The other: Making Art a livelihood. UNESCO Paris has accredited banglanatak dot com to provide Advisory Services to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee (2010).
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Amitava Bhattacharya, Founder and full time director at Banglanatak dot com, is an engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur with 19 years of work experience worldwide. Amitava is recipient of Chevening Leadership & Excellence Scholarship from the London School of Economics. He was nominated as Eastern Zone runnerup in Times Lead India Contest, 2007. In ten years time, he led his organization banglanatak dot com to grow to 65 persons well qualified team (with over 350 person years of development sector experience) and has worked at about 30000 villages across 23 states of India.Amitava has innovated and led both of these initiatives mentioned below, which has contributed immensely in the development process and also in pro-poor growth. The one being: Theater as a tool for grass-root communication, which includes outreach, capacity building of local stakeholders and doing social research – all using theater. The other: Making Art a livelihood. UNESCO Paris has accredited banglanatak dot com to provide Advisory Services to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee (2010).
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