Robin Banerjee
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Banerjee in his later years
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| Born |
12 August 1908 Baharampur, West Bengal, India |
| Died | 6 August 2003 (aged 94) |
| Residence | Golaghat, Assam |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | environmentalist, painter, photographer, documentary filmmaker |
| Awards | Padma Shri (1971) |
Robin Banerjee (12 August 1908 – 6 August 2003) was a noted wildlife expert, environmentalist, painter, photographer and documentary filmmaker who lived at Golaghat in the Indian state of Assam.
Robin Banerjee was born on 12 August 1908 at Baharampur in West Bengal and received primary schooling at Santiniketan. He went on to pursue medical education at the prestigious Calcutta Medical College in Kolkata, and later at Liverpool (1934) and Edinburgh (1936).
Banerjee had joined the Royal Navy in 1937 at Liverpool, and saw action in World War II. After the war, Banerjee decided to move back to India. In 1952, he visited Assam as a locum-tenens to a Scottish doctor. in 1952 he joined Chabua Tea Estate, Assam, as Chief Medical Officer, and later shifted to the Dhansiri Medical Association, Bokakhat as the Chief Medical Officer.
During a visit to Kaziranga National Park some time in the 1950s, Banerjee fell in love with the wilds of Assam and decided to settle down at Golaghat, near Kaziranga. Banerjee's first film on the Kaziranga National Park (one of the most important refuges of the Indian rhinoceros) on Berlin TV in 1961 was one of the first widely distributed media on the park to Western audiences. It also garnered him international recognition as a wildlife film-maker. He made 32 documentaries in his career as a film-maker, and was the recipient of 14 international awards.
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