Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti
Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti is an Indian Indologist and scholar of Onomastics & Vedic Studies, Author & Editor. He is currently Emeritus Fellow, UGC, Guest Lecturer in German, University of Calcutta, Honorary Visiting Professor, Centre for Indological Studies and Research, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. Formerly: Retd. Director & Professor, School of Vedic Studies, Rabindra Bharati University, Head of the Department of Sanskrit, Rabindra Bharati University. Awards and recognitions 
 Eshan Scholar; awarded Griffith Memorial Prize in Humanities, Calcutta University, 1983;
 Award from M. S. Rashtriya Vedavidya Pratisthan, Ministry of Human Resource Development, 2000;
 Rising Personalities of India Award, International Penguin Publishing House, Delhi, 2003;
 Sanskrit Day Award 2004, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Calcutta;
 Rashtrapati Samman 2009, Government of India. ;
 Guru Gangeshwarananda Veda-ratna Puraskara Award 2010, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai. 