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Charvak (b.1970) has stopped using his surname from 1978, when he became aware of the atrocities related to caste division and after that he became an icon of a personal crusade against caste division, particularly in West Bengal as well as other parts of India. In 1987-88, his story got published first in the Anandabazar Patrika - the largest circulated daily of the Indian state of West Bengal and his silent protest against caste division captured the imagination of young generation. Many of them started dropping the surname or traditional Bengali caste name after that. As a fall out, now a days using non-caste related second name became a social movement for reconciliation in West Bengal. In his personal life, after graduating from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Charvak studied post graduation in Journalism from University of Calcutta, and then M.Phil in Applied Economics from Centre for Development Studies, Kerala under JNU, where he stood first class first. His dissertation was published as a monograph in 2000, which has suggested that a bottom up planning process for furthering democratisation and advancing the interest of exploited and oppressed classes. After this he joined Indian Information Service and worked for Doordarshan and All India Radio. During 2000 - 2005 he had experimented for decentralisation in north of West Bengal. Presently he is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at Assam University, and one of the most knowledgeable experts on North-East India as well. His contribution ranges from being a social reformer with particular reference to anti-casteism dalit and reconciliation movement to a social researcher with particular reference to bottom up / decentralised planning to one of the pioneer journalists of North East India who has founded the first television regional news bulletins for the Indian state of Tripura, planned the Hindi news Bulletins of All India Radio Itanagar (under the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh) etc. His contribution encompasses many state of India and now he is teaching journalism to youngsters of North East India. A truly versatile intellectual as well as activist, Charvak has his philosophy of life deeply related to the philosopher Charvaka and Buddha, though he does not call himself to be follower of any particular religion, except 'that of humanity'.
