project team - heritagechandernagore

PROJECT TEAM
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Project Team:
Aishwarya Tipnis Architects
Project Director:
Aishwarya Tipnis
Project Architect:
Udit Sarkar
Team Architects:
Sanket Biswas
Ashim Chakrabarty
Team Historians:
Manvi Agarwal
Paromita Adhikary
Asmita Dey
Visual Communication
Chitra Chandrashekhar
Web Design Manager
Samragee Paul
Web Developer
Hemant Jainer
Naveen Adhikary
Shashank Sharma
Sonu Sharma
Citizens Historians:
Amrita Sen
Mukulika Kashyopi
Debjit Chatterjee
Manaj Saha
Somwrita Nag
Rudraraj Mallick
Arpita Das
Shreya Basu
Titas Ghosh
Sovan Saha
Judges:
Mr. Raju Raman
Ms. Rita Bhimani
French Consul - Fabrice Etienne
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Ashim Chakraborty
Ashim is an architect from the School of Planning and
Architecture New Delhi. Being born and brought up in the
Middle East, he is deeply connected to his Bengali roots and is
fascinated with Bengal. He's been the man behind the camera
Somwrita Nag
Somwrita is an undergraduate student of History at Presidency
University, Kolkata. She completed her schooling from St.
Joseph's Convent, Chandernagore. Her hometown is
Chandernagore. She strongly feels that despite having such a
wonderful history, Chandernagore never got the exposure it
deserves. She is extremely pleased that such a project has been
undertaken by Aishwarya Tipnis Architects and that she has
been able to involve herself in it. She hopes that the recognition
and publicity that has been long overdue for Chandernagore
will finally arrive upon the completion of this project
Mukulika Kashyopi
Mukulika has done her graduation in French (Honours) from
Chandannagar College. She feels that despite being a resident
of Chandernagore, she is not completely aware of the rich
heritage and history that this city has. As a contributor to this
project, she believes that she has been given a great
opportunity to know her city better. She wishes to highlight all
the nuances of Chandernagore's past, to the people of
Chandernagore and its well wishers, as a beautiful city and as a
former French colony.
Asmita Dey
Ashmita is a student of Ancient History, currently pursuing her
postgraduation at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She
belongs to an old family which has been based in Calcutta for
six generations (and counting). Rakshit Bhavan located in
Lalbagan, which is the residence of one of the most renowned
families of Chandernagore, is her father's maternal home and
birthplace. Thus, Chandernagore is very close to her heart as it
has played an important role through the twenty-one Durga
Pujas of her life. Being a part of this project gave her the
opportunity to salute Chandernagore for all the glory it holds
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Amrita Sen
Amrita is pursuing her Bachelor’s of Arts in French at the
Department of French, Dupleix College, Chandernagore. She
completed her schooling from St. Joseph’s Convent,
Chandernagore. She contributes the different perspective of a
Chandernagore resident to the project. She has a passion for
exploring her hometown and uncovering hitherto unknown
details of its heritage
Rudraraj Malik
Rudraraj Malik is a postgraduate student of South and
Southeast Asian studies at Calcutta University. He completed
his Bachelor’s in Economics from Vidyasagar College, Calcutta
University. He enjoys inclusively collaborative work and seeks
to face the complex and interesting challenges and
opportunities that this project throws up.
Paromita Adhikary
Paromita Adhikary is a final year undergraduate History
student at Presidency University, Kolkata. She hails from
Bandel, a settlement formerly controlled by the Portuguese.
The French heritage of Chandernagore has interested her since
her childhood. She wants to understand the Franco-Bangla
culture of Chandernagore placed in a broader context of the
Hooghly “Little Europe” belt of former colonies settled by
different European powers
Manvi Agarwal
Manvi is a native of Kolkata and is currently studying for her
BA (History) at Presidency University Kolkata. Manvi has been
working as part of the core team at Aishwarya Tipnis Architects
(ATA) since January 2015 on unearthing the hidden layers and
stories related to the history and heritage of Chandernagore.
Manvi is greatly intrigued at working on a live project that
brings history out from the books right into the heart of the city
and is inspired to work towards how history can bring about
positive change and shape our tomorrow.
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Sanket Biswas
Sanket is a native of Kolkata and is currently studying
architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New
Delhi and is working as an intern with Aishwarya Tipnis
Architects
(ATA)
since
January
2015.
Sanket holds a deep rooted interest in literature and traditions
in Bengal and is intrigued by finding meaning and relevance of
the cultural heritage in the youth of Bengal. He has been
working on valorising the heritage of Chandernagore and
preparing databases as part of the archiving process.
Udit Sarkar
Udit a native of Kolkata, is trained as an architect from the
Piloo Mody College of Architecture, Orissa and is working as a
architect with Aishwarya Tipnis Architects(ATA)since
2014. Udit has a passion for photography and wants to use
alternate mediums such as film and photography to create
heritage consciousness.Udit's job as the Project Architect is to
work with the community as well as coordinate and manage
programmes as part of the Project.
Samragee Paul
Samragee is an architect from Apeejay School of Architecture
and Planning and has been with ATA for over a year. Samragee
is interested in project implementation and management. Her
calm and meticulous disposition was instrumental in
coordination and on time delivery of the Heritage & People of
Chandernagore Website.
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Judging of the Competitions on 19th August 2015 at IdC
An entire day was spent at IdC on19th august to judege all theentries of the competitions. Mr
Raju Raman, Ms Rita Bhimani and the then French Consul Fabrice Etienne were the esteemed
judges.
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