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International
Student of the Week
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India
Above:Victoria.
India , officially the Republic of India, is a sovereign country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east, India has a coastline of over 7500 kilometers. It borders Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Indonesia.
Home to the Indus Valley civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated here, while Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped the region's variegated culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised by the United Kingdom from the mid-nineteenth century, India became a modern nation-state in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by widespread use of nonviolent resistance as a means of social protest.
India has a labour force of 509.3 million, 60% of which is employed in agriculture and related industries. Major agricultural crops include rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, and potatoes. The agricultural sector accounts for 28% of GDP. Source Wikipedia
Above: University of Kalyani
Pictures from Deepayan
Deepayan Debnath
March 10, 2009
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From the Department of Agricultural Economics
This week’s international student of the week is Deepayan Debnath. He is a Master's student in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Deepayan was born in West Bengali, India. He speaks Bengali, Hindi, and English. Deepayan is member of the Graduate Student Association in Agricultural Economics. He is also member of the GPSGA organization at OSU. Deepayan has strong leadership skills, he was the vice-president and treasurer ot the agricultural economics student organization at the University of Kalyani in West Bengali. He is also actively involved with a small un-recognized organization in India that supports rural development, particularly in the area of small business administration. He teaches farmers how to start a business. Deepayan spends his free time reading, and programming computers. He came to the US to continue his higher education with a Masters degree and he will pursue a Ph.D. later. He chose OSU because the Agricultural Economics Department is very well known and is among the best such departments in the United States.
Deepayan’s future plans are to continue his education to obtain a Ph.D. After that, he would like to join an international organization like the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics. Deepayan comes from a middle class family of rural India. His family owns a small agri-business firm that manufactures edible oil from masters seed and flour (atta) from wheat. He is the oldest of two children, his brother goes to High School, in West Bengali. Deepayan stated that his mother has been very important in his life. Advisor: Dr. Art Stoecker (with Deepayan below)
Deepayan's’ advice to students: “ International students should actively involve with organization like GPSGA and ISO.” Interview by: Sandra Rodríguez
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