Tapan K. Bose

Tapan K Bose is a filmmaker cum human rights activist. Who actively writes articles for magazines in Nepal, India, and Pakistan. He has a website called the ‘Academia.’ He released a film in 1982 titled ‘An Indian Story.’ The film was first banned but then cleared by the High Court in Bombay. It won the Critic’s Choice Award at the London Film Festival in 1983 and the National Award for Best Documentary in the same year. He then released the film Beyond Genocide: Bhopal Gas Tragedy in 1986, which the Censor Board banned.

Bombay High Court cleared the film, and it went on to win the Best Non-Fiction Film Award at Golden Lotus in 1986. His other films included ‘Semurg’ in 1978, ‘Jadu ki Kitab’ in 1979, ‘Scientific Attitude’ in 1980, ‘Behind the Barricades- Punjab’ in 1983, ‘Alternative Technology’ in 1985, ‘The Vulnerable Road User’ in 1999, ‘Expendable People,’ and ‘Jharkhand- The Struggle of the Indian Indigenous people’ in 2003. He has had many of his films banned for many years. He is an active member of various groups and committees like Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, Emeritus, Mahanirvan Calcutta Research Group, Equal Rights Trust in London, Other Media in New Delhi, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre in New Delhi, and Citizens’ Initiative on Kashmir. He has had many of his films banned for many years.