UPROOTED: Surviving British India / Robin Podder (ePub)

Robin Podder was born in 1939 in a remote village in Bangladesh, then a part of undivided British India. His life in the village was almost primitive. There was no electricity, gas, running water, paved road, or transportation except bullock carts. In 1946 came the communal riot, and in 1947 the end of the British raj, the partition, and the Indian independence. His village fell under the newly created Pakistan. Being Hindu, his family had to leave the village's birthplace and move to Kolkata, India. He got through high school, and college and received his Mechanical Engineering degree (BSME) from Bengal Engineering College ( now IIEST) in 1960. In 1975, he immigrated to the USA and naturalized as a US citizen. He got his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) from the California State University, Los Angeles. He continued his study at the California Institute of Technology and at UCLA, in Robotics, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. He held a senior manufacturing management position at Northrop Grumman Corporation and retired in 1995. Robin with his wife Pratima are residents of Torrance, CA. since 1983.Alongside his professional carrier, Robin Podder has been a lifelong community activist for immigrant community. He was one of the founding members of Bengali Association of Southern California, and Dakshini. He has been writing and directing numerous stage plays at various venues of Dakskini, BASC, and Banga Sammelan.Before coming to America, he established himself as a well known playwright, director and actor in India. He was one of the rising stars of the Peoples Drama Movement alongside Utpal Dutta, Ajit Ganguly, Sambhu Mitra and Badal Sarkar. He adopted Shakespeare's Othello in Bengali Jatra form and performed it in the remote villages of West Bengal. One of his one-act plays won the first prize at he All India Youth Festival. He penned more than a dozen of Bengali plays.After retirement, he attended the Film School at UCLA. He wrote,

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