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'''Ramendra Kumar Podder''' was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] [[India]]n scholar of [[biochemistry]], who served as the Vice Chancellor of the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name=Vice_Chancellors>[http://www.caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/our_vice_chancellors2.htm List of Vice Chancellors of the University of Calcutta]</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1060125/asp/calcutta/story_5761107.asp | title= Speeches cut short, guests turned away - Dispute and discord mar campus anniversary bash | date=25 January 2006 | newspaper=The Telegraph | location=India | accessdate=3 September 2018 }}</ref> He was a [[Member of Parliament]], representing [[West Bengal]] in the [[Rajya Sabha]] the [[upper house]] of [[Parliament of India|India's Parliament]] as a member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/p.pdf| title=RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1952 - 2003 | publisher=[[Rajya Sabha]] | accessdate=14 June 2020}}</ref>

He was educated at the renowned [[Scottish Church College]] in Calcutta, and at the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume'' Scottish Church College, 2008, page 586</ref> He would serve as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta from 20 June 1979 to 30 December 1983.<ref name=Vice_Chancellors/>

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