Photographer Sunil Janah Part-1
By kamla bhatt • Sep 20th, 2007Category: Diaspora, Featured, India, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
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Sunil Janah started his photography career during British India, and made a name for himself during the 1940s when he chronicled the Bengal famine through his stunning and gut-wrenching series of black and white images. Soon after that he chronicled the partition of India and its impact on Bengal. Calcutta, which was once known as the “City of Lights,” overnight changed and became a city filled with refugees when Indian became free on August 15, 1947. Bengal was partitioned, and East Bengal became a part of the new state of Pakistan (East Pakistan and subsequently Bangladesh).
In this first part of our conversation Mr. Janah talks about how he started his career as a photographer and the role of his mentor PC Joshi, who was a well-known Communist leader during this time. Mr. Janah also shares stories about taking pictures of Gandhi and Nehru. Here is a video link to Mr. Janah’s photographs.
It was during the 1940s that the famous American photographer Margaret Bourke-White of Life magazine came in search of Mr. Janah in Calcutta.
Mr. Janah lives with his wife Dr. Shobha Janah in Berkeley, California.
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Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
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