Kiran Seth
Indian academic
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Through Government of India and IIT Kharagpur
In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
Early life and education
His father, Bhojraj Seth, was a mathematician and the first professor at the IIT Kharagpur, established in 1951, while his mother Bhagawati Seth was a homemaker.
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Career
Seth started his career working as a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey in 1974, a job he gave up to return to India in 1976 as an Assistant Professor to teach at IIT Delhi, where he has worked ever since. It was at IIT Delhi that he founded SPIC MACAY in 1977.
He served as Vice-Chairman of the Governing Council of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune from 2012 to 2014.
SPIC MACAY
Today the movement conducts concerts, lec-dems, talks, yoga workshops, classic film shows, theatre shows and craft workshops in schools and colleges so that young people might be inspired.