A reputed medical practitioner, Professor and Head of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the North Bengal Medical College, Prof. Dr Partha Pratim Pan, whose first groomer in the field of recitation was Niladri Sekhar Basu, studied and practiced the same for more than two decades under the tutelage of legendary recitor Acharya Utpal Kundu.
President of one of the leading organizations of recitors- “Katha-O-Kabita” - and editor of a one-of-its-kind magazine dedicated exclusively to recitation by the same name, Prof. Pan conducts recitation and talk-theatre programmes,Seminers, Work-shops in India and Bangladesh regularly.
He is the proponent of the first-of-its-kind Recitation Curriculum in Bengali Language at the Panchanan Barma University, Cooch Behar, where he framed the syllabus and is at once an honourary faculty, honourble member of the Board of studies.