INTERNATIONAL BEST RESEARCHER AWARD (ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS)
My birthplace is the village ‘Srikrishnapur’ in the district of Birbhum, West Bengal and it was then a remote village having almost no communication, nearest bus stop was at a distance of 10 km. My father, Late Gora Chand Mondal, was a lower middle class farmer and he studied upto class iv. My mother, Late Adarini Mondal, was an illiterate housewife. I have passed School Final Examination under West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in first division in the year 1967 securing 100 out of 100 marks in mathematics and on the basis of this result, I was awarded the National Scholarship by Government of India. I have passed University Entrance Examination in 1969 in the first division and then I have passed B.Sc (Hons) examination in Chemistry in 1973 and got second class from Bolpur College, Bolpur, Birbhum. After that I obtained my M.Sc. degree (Inorganic Chemistry) in first class from Visva-Bharati University , Shantiniketan , Birbhum in the year of 1975. I have started my service life as junior lecturer in chemistry in Kandi Raj College from 1978. In September, 1984, I again joined Visva-Bharati University to carry out research work under the Teacher-Fellowship scheme sanctioned by UGC and obtained Ph.D. degree in 1989. My research work was in the field of Water Pollution. I have come back to same college in 1989. Leaving Kandi Raj College, I have joined Berhampore Girls’ College, Berhampore, Murshidabad in 2000. I have retired from my service as Associate Professor in Chemistry from the same on 31.03.2011 at the age of 60. From my very childhood, I had a strong curiosity about the objects in the sky, i.e. about the stars, planets, galaxies, universe etc. From 1990, I have started to think about them and also started to collect information about them from some related books. After retirement, I got enough time to think over them profoundly. I have started to prepare some data about the nature of above mentioned objects on the basis of established scientific theories using simple scientific calculator in my home. And by the way, I obtained some interesting results which contradicted the so called ideas about them. These interesting results have inspired me to publish them in the form of research papers in suitable journal. I have succeeded to do it from 2021 in the highly esteemed journal IJSR (International Journal of Science and Research). During the period from 2021 to 2024, I have been able to publish 4 research papers and I have been awarded the ISSN award. I am very glad to declare that I feel proud of it and it also gives me a great satisfaction.