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Sunil Janah was born on 17 April, 1918 in Assam, India, is an Indian photojournalist and documentary photographer. Discover Sunil Janah's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 17 April 1918
Birthday 17 April
Birthplace Assam, India
Date of death 21 June, 2012
Died Place Berkeley, California, USA
Nationality India

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1918

Sunil Janah (17 April 1918 — 21 June 2012) was an Indian photojournalist and documentary photographer who worked in India in the 1940s.

Janah documented India's independence movement, its peasant and labour movements, famines and riots, rural and tribal life, as well as the years of rapid urbanization and industrialization.

Sunil Janah was born on 17 April 1918 in Dibrugarh, Assam but grew up in Kolkata.

He attended St. Xavier's College, Kolkata at the University of Calcutta.

There, he joined politically leftist students.

Communist politician Puran Chand Joshi urged Janah to abandon his English studies and pursue a career in photography.

1943

He was best known for his coverage of the Bengal famine of 1943.

Janah traveled to Bengal with Chittaprosad Bhattacharya to photograph the damage caused by the 1943 famine.

He moved with Bhattacharya to Bombay and joined the Progressive Writers Association and Indian People's Theatre Association.

He was a co-founder of Calcutta Film Society.

He was best known for his coverage of the Bengal famine of 1943.

In 'People's War' and after that 'People's Age' Janah used to have one page for a photo feature for which he photographed the lives of ordinary people, their struggles, the working class at work, rowing boats, catching fish, in coal mines, from men and women working in homes and fields to bow and arrow carrying tribal people, farmers and workers heading to protest, revolutionaries of Telangana and via these photographs he established the Communist Party's ideology and commitment amongst the people.

Janah made portraits of Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Sheikh Abdullah, Faiz, and J. Krishnamurthi.

Photographer and curator Ram Rahman said, "Janah's work is the defining epic document of the last decade of the freedom struggle and the first decade of free India — a chronicler of the 'Nehruvian' years".

1972

He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1972 and the Padma Bhushan in 2012.

Noted for the beauty and technical quality of his compositions, Janah's photographs are significant in their historical content as well as their emotional connect.

2012

The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 2012.

He died on 21 June 2012 at his home in Berkeley, California due to natural causes.

He is survived by his son, Arjun, who lives in Brooklyn, New York.