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SOCIAL
CAREER OF CHITTA BEHERA SO FAR
(upto March 2007)
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BRIEF PROFILE
1. Name:
Chitta Ranjan Behera
2.
Current Address:
4A Jubilee Tower, Choudhury Bazar, Cuttack-753009, Orissa,
Emails: chittabehera1@yahoo.co.in
PH: 0671-2308518 (Res),
Mobiles: 98610-91455 and 9437577546
3.
Date and place of Birth:11th February 1952, Vill-Dashipur,
PO-Balana,
Via-Marshaghai,
Dt- Kendrapara,
Orissa, India
4.
Educational Qualification: MA (Economics), LL.B. (Both from Utkal
University, Orissa)
5.
Occupation : A freelance
publicist and activist (with effect from May 2001)
6.
Career Graph:
1971-87:
an adherent of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought. During
this period, he served as:
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Assistant Secretary, Ravenshaw College Students’ Union 1970-71
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General Secretary , Ravenshaw College Students’ Union 1971-72
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President, Ravenshaw College Students’ Union 1973-74
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Secretary, Orissa State Committee, All India DSO (Democratic Students’
Organisation), a student wing of SUCI
(Socialist Unity Centre of India) during the period 1974-82 operating
from Cuttack
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General Secretary, AIDSO (operating from Kolkata during 1982-86)
1987:
Resigned from the parent party SUCI in September 1987 on grounds of
unresolved theoretical differences as mentioned in the booklet ‘Why did
I break with SUCI brand of pseudo-Marxism’.
1987-88:
Reconsidering the entire corpus of orthodox Marxism. During this brief
interlude he brought out several pamphlets on why orthodox Marxism won’t
do and the need for a critical rereading of the texts of Marx, Engels and
other thinkers of their school.
1988-89:
Editorship of ‘Eastern Weekly’ (An English Weekly published from
Rourkela and Cuttack)
From 1989
upto May 2001:
Served as the Founder- Director of ‘Project Swarajya’ an NGO based at
Cuttack, Orissa
From
2001onwards:
Voluntarily resigned from the post of Director ‘Project Swarajya’ in
May 2001 to make himself free for a larger engagement with civil society.
7.
International Events partaken:
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19th
International Sea Turtle Symposium held at South Padre Island, Texas, USA
in 1999.
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20th
International Sea Turtle Symposium held at Florida, USA in 2000.
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23rd
International Sea Turtle Symposium held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2003.
8.
Countries visited: USA (South Padre Island, Texas 1999), UK (London, 1999), USA (Orlando, Florida, 2000), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, 2003), Singapore (2003), Thailand (Pattaya & Bangkok 2009)
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