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Monish R. Chatterjee received the B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from I.I.T., Kharagpur, India, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. Dr. Chatterjee was a faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at SUNY Binghamton from 1986 through 2002. Dr. Chatterjee is currently with the ECE department at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Chatterjee, who specializes in applied optics, has contributed more than 100 papers to technical conferences, and has published more than 70 papers in archival journals and conference proceedings, in addition to numerous reference articles on science. Dr. Chatterjee's most recent literary essays appear in Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition, published by FDU Press (2004); Celebrating Tagore, published by Allied Publishers (2009); and Tagore: A Timeless Mind by ICCR and the London Tagore Society (2012). He is the author of four books of translation (Kamalakanta, Profiles in Faith, Balika Badhu and Seasons of Life) from his native Bengali. In 2000, Dr. Chatterjee received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005, Dr. Chatterjee received a Humanities Fellows award from the University of Dayton to conduct research on scientific language. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE and a member of ASEE and Sigma Xi. OpEd News Member for 882 week(s) and 6 day(s) 70 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 123 Comments, 0 Diaries, 16 Series, 0 Polls Series Listed By Popularity List Alphabetically 
Cultural and civilizational (21 articles)
These essays deal with culture and civilization related topics. 
Socio-Political (25 articles)
These are essays on social and poltical issues in the US and elsewhere. 
Anti-bigotry, anti-racism, anti-imperialist poetry (13 articles)
I will post here a series of Bengali poems which address caste, racism, bigotry and imperialism. 
Tagore's worldview poems (5 articles)
These are poems in which Rabindranath Tagore writes about historical, societal and other matters pertinent to different regions of the world. 
Journalism-activism (11 articles)
Journalism has become a commodity, for sale to the highest Wall Street bidder, in the past 4 decades since Ronald Reagan. I present reflections on the small minority of courageous journalists who take risks speaking out against tyranny and oppression. 
Freedom songs vs British Colonialism (6 articles)
Bengal's authors, poets and itinerant musicians and composers created an impressive body of inspiring 'Freedom Songs' during the first 4 decades of the 20th century as the momentum to oust the British colonial occupiers built momentum. I will explore some of these songs (by a number of the more leading names) in this series. 
Art and Ideals (9 articles)
This series deals with expositions of art in all its manifestations- its practitioners, its dimensions and its tracks through societies. 
Golden Age Bengali Music (5 articles)
The 4 decades spanning 1940s through 1970s comprise what may rightly be called the Golden Age of modern Bengali music with extraordinary creative artists blossoming in profuse numbers. Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, Manna De, Manabendra Mukhopdhyay, Dwijen Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal Mitra, Satinath Mukhopadhyay, Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, Protima Bandyopadhyay, Akhilbandhu Ghosh, Jatileshwar Mukhopadhyay, Sabita Chowdhury, Dhananjay Bhattacharya, to name only a few, along with composers and lyricists such as Salil Chowdhury, Gouriprasanna Majumdar, Pulak Bandyopadhyay, Nachiketa Ghosh and several others. 
Iconic figures (5 articles)
Dedicated in writing to iconic figures in our own time and in the recent past. 
Golden age music of Bengal (5 articles)
The music of Bengal, folk, maritime, popular, modern, revolutionary, avate-garde, even classically based, has typically been path-breaking for well over 100 years. Even so, between the 1940s and late 1970s- it blossomed into multiple directions accompanied by composers, lyricists and of course performers of the very highest order who have set up a standard everything since those 'Golden Age' decades have only been at best efforts at replicating the genius of that period. I will post a series of articles highlighting the great creative figures of this epochal, post-renaissance period. 
Tagore's balladic poems (4 articles)
Rabondranath Tagore wrote a great many balladic poems which had their own story line and lessons for all. 
Tagore's Emerging Philosophy on Life (3 articles)
In thise series, I present several poems by Rabindranath Tagore which begin with his early 'awakening' leading to his eventual Universalist philosophy. 
Tagore's Hero Poems (2 articles)
Rabindranath Tagore wrote several poems highlighting aspects of India's heroic figures, including Banda Singh Bahadur and Chhatrapati Shivaji, among others. In this series, I will present translations of some of these poems. 
Historic crossroads (2 articles)
Certain events in history (such as Milton meeting Galileo, or Hardy meeting Ramanujan) persist over time because they create new pathways for human progress. 
Writings/Essays in Bengali (1 articles)
This series will consist of my essays, poems, translations and other writings in Bengali. |
