Saturday 22 March 2014

Jamia Millia senior professor to visit Tripura University


Renowned media expert and senior professor from Jamia Millia Islamia University – Professor Balakrishnan Diwakar is expected to visit the Tripura University from February 24 onwards. A source in the university told that the senior professor was invited to deliver a series of lectures at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of the university for 15 days.

Professor Diwakar is currently serving as Professor of Film at the Jamia Millia Islamia University research centre at New Delhi. Diwakar’s famous film – ‘Our Lady of Lourde’ was nominated in the Accolade film Festival at California in 2006 and won the Accolade award for technical excellence. 
The university also said that the visiting professor would be delivering hands-on experience and lectures on photography, camera techniques, film studies etc. 
The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication is expecting few more visiting professors from across the country soon. Professor Sohini Ghosh of the Jamia Millia Islamia University is expected to visit the Department shortly. 
Professor Diwakar produced and scripted a number of documentary films on a wide array of variant formats. He taught cinematography at the FTII in 1988 when he subsequently joined the AJK MCRC as a a reader of cinematography in 1989. 
Experience in direction of photography in feature films, documentary films and advertisement films, Professor Diwakar has worked as photographer, visualize and copy writer in different advertisement agencies before joining the Film and Technology Institute of India (FTII).

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