Brief Biography of the Hon’ble Chancellor

Ananda Bose was born on 2 January 1951 at Mannanam, Kerala to Vasudevan Nair and Padmavathy. He attended Kuriakose Elias College, Mannanam, and St. Berchmans College, Changanassery. He holds a Ph.D from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

As the Administrator of the National Museum, Bose launched a 100-day programme which spelt out specific measures to revamp and revitalise the institution. Most of the improvements suggested were achieved in 60 days, such as opening the closed down galleries, modernising the display and lighting, launching outreach programmes to take the Museum to the community, arranging children’s programme to ignite young minds to the greatness of India’s national heritage, organising international exhibitions and launching the People’s Museum movement, to mention a few.

Dr. Bose has 350 publications to his credit, including 70 books, consisting of novels, short stories and poems in Malayalam, Hindi, English and now in Bengali also.

On 17 November 2022, Bose was appointed Governor of West Bengal by President Droupadi Murmu.