Jadavpur

Jadavpur (Bengali:যাদবপুর) is a southern neighbourhood of Kolkata, India.Jadavpur is one of the important juncture in south kolkata. It is bounded by Dhakuria to the north, Tollygunge to the west, Santoshpur to the east and Garia to the south. Several of India's major learning institutes are located in Jadavpur, around the Raja SC Mullick Road, including the Jadavpur University, the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, KPC Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal's first private-public partnership medical college, the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology among others.

The Jadavpur market area is often casually referred to as the "8B" area, due to the sprawling 8B bus terminus that dominates the major crossing of the area. It is the centre of Jadavpur downtown, right across from Jadavpur University and a few hundred yards from KPC Medical College and Hospital and K.S. Roy T.B. Hospital.

History

Right after the independence, West Bengal recorded an enormous influx of people from East Bengal, now Bangladesh, a migration so large that the "displaced persons" made up nearly 18 per cent of Kolkata's population. To accommodate the sudden increase in population, a large number of colonies emerged within the Calcutta Corporation area itself. One of the areas of concentration of the refugee colonies was the southeast portion of the CMD in the Jadavpur, Tollygunj, Kasba, Santoshpur areas. The refugees were interested in building their huts of "darma and bamboo" in the low-lying and marshy areas near Calcutta and many of them, belonging to middle classes, wanted to be near the metropolis for occupational interests. This is how Jadavpur started. This gave rise to the para culture (aka neighborhood) there are a number of known paras and people not familiar with the area may need to know which specific para they are looking for.Jadavpur was named after late Jadav Narayan Sarkar, Zaminder of Sonarpur.

Vivek Agnihotri

Vivek Agnihotri is an avant-garde Bollywood Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has worked in genres including erotica, thriller, sports, political dramas and love stories.

Agnihotri made his directorial debut with Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets (2005) and followed it with Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007) and the erotic thriller Hate Story.

In 2014, Agnihotri directed a psycho thriller named Zid that was produced by Anubhav Sinha. He distanced himself from the film stating that he has nothing to do with Zid but was bound by a legal clause.

In 2002, he created a production house named Vivek Agnihotri Creates Pvt. Ltd.

Vivek has been quite vocal about social issues since a while and has been voicing his opinion on social media and news media. He led the integral part of the movement countering the protests by writers and artistes against "rising intolerance", against the rebel group along with Anupam Kher, Madhur Bhandarkar, Manoj Joshi, Ashoke Pandit and many more. He was a part of a debate on the same topic on Arnab Goswami aired live on times now on 7 November 2015 along with Manoj Joshi.