Education

Sengupta had done Bachelor of Science Honors in Mathematics from Calcutta University, 1966. Obtained Certificate in statistics from Indian Statistical Institute (Inter-Services Intelligence) in the same year.

After that he had done master"s degree in Statistics (M Stat) from Inter-Services Intelligence, 1969 and in also did Post Graduate Diploma in Demography from Inter-Services Intelligence and Summer Course on Population from East-West Centre, Hawaii, United States of America and Korean Institute of family planning, Seoul, South of Korea, in 1974 with special shop on Demographic Survey Research Methods.

He also took In-service training course on Management and Planning of Environment from Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Government of West Bengal in 1985. He did Post Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing in English (DCE) in 1995, Diploma in Computer in Office Management (DCO) in 1998 and Master in Computer Application (Master of Computer Applications) in the year 2006 from Indira Gandhi National Open University ( Indira Gandhi National Open University).

He was also trained on Geographic Information System (geographic information system or geographical information science) from ATI in August, 2004. Recently in 2010, he completed the Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Appreciation of Indian Art’, from the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata.

Career

He is the fourth son among seven children of Manindranath and Provabati Sengupta. Science Biswatosh was the Additional Director-in-Charge in Socio-Economic Planning and Appraisal Maintaining Evaluation in Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), Salt Lake. He retired from there on 30 September 2004.

His specializations are Statistics, Demography, Planning and Information Technology.

At present he is working as Professor in Information Technology and Head of the Department of Bank Central Asia in B P Poddar Institute of Management & Technology situated in Kolkata. First solo exhibition on paintings with computer graphics ‘Graphic Art’ using ‘C’ and ‘C++’ held at Indian Museum, Kolkata in 2009.

The second solo exhibition on the same title with similar technique was held at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, from 22 – 28 July 2010 and the third solo exhibition on Graphic Art using c, c++ and MATLAB was held at the same gallery of Kolkata from 3–9 October 2012. His 4th solo exhibition on Creative Photography will be held on 11 December 2013 for three days at the Gaganendra Silpa Pradarshasala, Kolkata.

Achievements

• He was awarded AFIAP distinction for outstanding contribution in the field of Fine art photography in 1975 and ESFIAP for Excellent Service for the cause of International Photography in 1985 by the Fédération Internationale de l"Art Photographique. He was conferred the Honorary Fellowship of The National Photographic Art Society Sri Lanka in 1984. Very recent Bangladesh Photographic Society conferred Fellowship to Sengupta.