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The initiative is being  spearheaded by Prof. Indranil Chakravarty and Prof. Shyama Prasad Ganguly. It is particularly privileged to have the personal encouragement and enthusiastic support of the Nobel Laureate writer, Gabriel García Márquez.

INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY   is a film academic and filmmaker. He  graduated in film direction from  Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Havana (1992) where he studied under the writer Gabriel García Márquez. He has been a scriptconsultant for the European Union Cross-Cultural Programme and has taught screenplay-writing, film direction as well as Film Appreciation at all major film institutes in India and several universities abroad.  Among his publications, The New Latin American Cinema: Readings from Within (1998), is now a reference text for postgraduate students at several Indian universities. He was the Convenor  of the First All-India Screenwriters’ Conference held at the Film & TV Institute of India (FTII, 2006), Pune  and has been invited to speak at several international conferences around the world. Currently he is Professor of Film Appreciation at Whistling Woods International (India’s leading film institute in Mumbai’s Film City) and  is working on a feature film. He has been on the jury of several international film festivals (in Brazil, Mexico and Cuba) and is the director of ILACI. He is also on the editorial board of  Vislumbres, the  journal of all Spanish and Portuguese speaking diplomatic missions in India. Indranil maintains a private blog titled ‘Meandering Mind’.   Contact by email

 

Professor S. P. GANGULY  is Ex-Chairperson,Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He holds MA in both Economics and Spanish Studies, diploma in Hispanic Studies from Universidad Complutense (Madrid), doctoral “monographic” courses from El Colegio de México and UNAM. He has a large number of publications (15 books and 60 essays) which are considered pioneering in the field of  India-Latin America cultural studies. He has been bestowed Doctoris Honoris Causa by Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla, Colombia (’92), Gabriela Mistral International Medal, Chile (‘95), Bernardo O’Higgins Condecoration ( El  Grado de Comendador), Chile (‘97) and Citation of Honour, Camara de Diputados, Cordoba, Argentina (1998). He has served as interpreter to Indira Gandhi, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and other heads of  state.  He is the founder-editor of two Indian journals on Hispanic Studies. Prof. Ganguly has been visiting professor to several Latin American universities. Currently he is guiding several PhD scholars on Latin American studies and is the President of the Editorial Council of Vislumbres, journal of all Spanish and Portuguese speaking diplomatic missions in India.