Department of Mass Communication - Achievements

Achievements by Faculty

Faculty Members

Dr. Manali Bhattacharya
Panel Speaker for Media Educators' Round Table ,organized and hosted by ABP Education on June 6 th,2020 for the topic 'Teaching Communication Through Online Platforms: A New Challenge.'

Dr. Reshmi Naskar
Best paper awardee at Asian Congress for Media and Communication, India chapter 2019. 'Interactive Theatres in Maternal Health and Access to Safe Abortion: A public outreach programme.'

Panel Speaker for 'Child Abuse and Indian Media: A critical analysis of current media portrayal and the role of media in facilitating community education' for National Conference at Loreto College

Dr. Somak Sen
Panel speaker for an invited lecture on 'Framing and Presentation of Covid-19 news in selected Bengali and Hindi news channels: A study' at the International Webinar on the theme 'Covid 19 Pandemic and Communication: Its Use and Misuse in Shaping Discourse vis-a-vis Society, Economy and Culture' on 17-18 June 2020, conducted by Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

Prof. Nilanjan Ghosh

Documentary - KHWATA (The Wound), (Screened in 12 national and international film festival)
Direction and camera - Bijoy Chowdhury
Editor - Mithun Pramanik
Sound and music - Nilanjan Ghosh
Status - Screened

Short Film (Fiction) - MEE TOO
Director - Prasun Banerjee
Camera - Saikat Biswas
Editor - Mayukh Pal
Sound - Nilanjan Ghosh
Status - Screened

Documentary - AGE OF TIME (national science film festival, nomination)
Director and camera - Indrayudh Sarkar
Researcher - Dr. Taparati Ganguly
Editor - Mayukh Pal
Sound - Nilanjan Ghosh
Status - Screened

Documentary (International) - UNVEILED AYURVEDA by Geeta Desai
94 tracks as a Music Producer
Status - Ongoing since 20th Oct 2019, Los Angeles

Students

• Eight students of the session 2017-2019 qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET)
• One student of the session 2018-2020 qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET)
• Two students of the session 2023-2025 qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET)
• Two postgraduate students, Ayana Roy and Saptaparni Sarkar were awarded by PRSI, Kolkata chapter in 2025 for scoring highest marks in Public Relations paper.
• Garima Bhuwalka of 2024-26 batch was awarded by PRSI, Kolkata chapter.
• The documentary 'He Too Cries...Unheard shadow of Silence' of Abhirup Pal and Urboshree Banerjee, students of Mass Communication Department (M.A.) was selected officially in _KOLKATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 in short documentary and panorama category & bagged best editor in CANNES Film Festival. It also won several awards in Myanmar International Film Festival.
• Short Film, Shoelace directed by Bhavya Nagpal was officially selected in Kalakari Film Festival 2024.
• Sanjana Malhotra's article regularly published in Times of India (The Calcutta Times).
• Titiksha Suhasariya of Bachelor of Mass Communication started as an RJ with Red FM

General

• Lecture on Cyber Crime and Cyber Security on 9.12.23 at Asutosh College (Cyber Hygine Cell and IQAC
• Invitation to chair a session on 23.09.22 for a National Conclave 'Digital is the New Mainstream'
• Lecture on 'Winding Up Science Journalism' on 19.09.23 for 34th training programme on Science Communication and media practise organized by ISNA
• Invitation to be a Resource Person for Media Conference on Development Journalism organised from 14 th December -16th December ,2022 by Press Club, Kolkata in collaboration with UNICEF,West Bengal
• Resource Person for 03 MOOC lectures for BA(Hons)Sociology titled 'Sociology of Media' from EMMRC Kolkata on 19/10/22 and 21/11/22
• Invitation as a resource person for Indian Science News Association and Vigyan Prasar,DST : 14th Science Communicator's Meet on Science Popularization:The role of Women Communicators on 17th March 2023 at Megnad Saha Auditorium,University of Calcutta
• Editorial Coordinator of Bi -Annual peer reviewed Digital International Journal 'The Communicator" https://communicator.net.in/