Theme: 'isms' & 'schisms': A DIVIDED SOCIETY

"a boundary in society that separates communities whose social economic structures, opportunities for success, conventions, styles, are so different that they have substantially different psychologies".

Centre of Performing Arts
7, Moira St, Elgin
Kolkata, West Bengal, 700017
India

Atri Bhattacharya

Principal Secretary

Speaker 3 : Atri Bhattacharya: Pluralism in Democracy: Fact or Fiction? Shri Atri Bhattacharya, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, has joined as Director General, Administrative Training Institute (ATI), West Bengal Date: 29th September 2022 Venue: Centre for Performing Arts

Kounteya Sinha

Journalist Photographer Entrepreneur

Kounteya Sinha is an artist who weaves his magic not with the brush but with the lens of his camera. He is truly gifted with “the eye” and has the striking ability to see depths and dimensions in simple everyday objects and people that we never possibly could. His photographs are stunning and striking and at times gut-wrenching but always beautiful and they hypnotize you. His latest exhibition is STONE – BEING AND BECOMING What an incredible journey this must have been showcased by over 60 spectacular photographs documenting a 95,000 km journey spanning over 25 countries in 440 days, exploring and capturing the romance of being static — the story of a rock becoming an astounding architectural wonder to the metamorphosis of human beings turning to stone – the phenomenon of unfeeling.

Sohini Sengupta

Actress Theater Artist

Sohini Sengupta is an Indian film and theatre actress. She played a supporting role in Aparna Sen’s film Paromitar Ek Din (2000) for which she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2000 National Film Awards. Daughter of actor Rudraprasad Sengupta and Swatilekha Sengupta, who are also active in theatre, Sohini is one of the leading actors of the Bengali theatre group Nandikar. As a member of the group, she has worked with prominent theatre personalities such as Debshankar Halder, Sumanto Gangopadhyay and Parthapratim Deb, and was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi's 2007 Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for contributions to theatre.

Swati Gautam

Entrepreneur Journalist

Calcutta-based entrepreneur Swati Gautam was nominated by the Jesuit Alumni Associations of India (JAAI) to deliver one of the seven keynote addresses. A Xaverian from Calcutta recently represented Asia at the Eighth World Union of Jesuit Alumni Congress in South America. The global congress is held every four years and moves from continent to continent.