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Iman (Somali-American supermodel, actress, and entrepreneur) 

"Not only does award winning photographer Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri create magnificent images… Indrani also grasps the meaning of giving-back!  Indrani and her father, Ajay Pal-Chaudhuri started SEEschool in West Bengal, which provides free quality education and vocational training for women and children.... Indrani embodies talent and social conscience."

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- Iman in the foreword to ICONS: The Celebrity Exposures of Markus and Indrani (Perseus Press, 2021)

Deepak Chopra

The Chopra Foundation by Deepak Chopra has supported SEEschool by donating many books to our Library, and linking to our foundation on its website in 2010. The Chopra Foundation is dedicated to improving health and well-being, cultivating spiritual knowledge, expanding consciousness, and promoting world peace to all members of the human family - missions which SEEschool wholeheartedly shares.

Suhel Seth -- Columnist, Financial Times, Hindustan Times, The Telegraph, and Indian Express; Founder and managing partner of Counselage India; Chairman, Marketing Committees of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).

"Shakti Empowerment Foundation, run by Indrani’s father at this advanced age is so beautiful, it’s an example of how we should all be. It is not just a duty, it’s a moral obligation to make sure that everyone is supported... The work that Indrani and her dad are doing, the work that the NGO is doing, with so much compassion, this must inspire us all." 

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- Suhel Seth at #United4India Clubhouse event May 1, 2021

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“Across Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri’s body of work, from film and photography to philanthropy and social activism, she uses art as a means of processing and reflecting upon questions of self and society, justice and hope, history and myth...  Indrani finds a singular thread and invites viewers to feel tugged and sometimes even lashed at by the thing that would have been invisible to most other eyes...  I love the resourcefulness at work in what Indrani does...  Not just because what she creates is beautiful, but because in operating as it does, her work urges a viewer to acknowledge that a question like whether to protect the oceans, is one that can be approached not just with the intellect or even with the moral conscience, but also by calling upon unusual capacities, like passion, attraction, grief, and a real urge to be carried away, lost, overtaken, transformed. These are natural human feelings that live most of the time corralled into just one region of the self, but when they are invited in, they make a social or political question one that can be explored with the totality of oneself."

- Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States and Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, at Princeton University Creative Arts and Humanities Symposium, October 2018

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"Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, a remarkable multidisciplinary artist, director, and impact innovator, shared profound insights on "Connecting to Nature and the Importance of Indigenous Wisdom." As a professional storyteller, Indrani introduced us to the history of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples and their inclusive approach to preserving community and protecting nature. She also helped expand the message that business can be a force for good and that humans have amazing potential for problem-solving. We can choose the narrative we want about the future and it does not have to be catastrophic." - Green Up, at Davos World Economic Forum, celebrating the launch of Climate Hub

 

"Wielding her visionary work like a weapon, Indrani is using her art and resources for social justice and change." 

-Zee Chang, Soma

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"Indrani's vast experience and unique sensibility makes her one of the most sought- after professional visual artists in the world...  Indrani moves through the world with diplomacy and grace and it's no surprise that celebrities the world over have trusted her with their images. She's a fine role model... balancing the glamour and gloss of her professional life with philanthropy."

- Paul Sunday, New York Film Academy Photography Co-Chair

 

"This profound respect for difference and this sensibility for people’s singularity... [in] Indrani's work in anthropology... influenced her in her impressive career, this attention to singularity and people’s plasticity."

-João Biehl, Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Program in Global Health and Health Policy, Princeton University, in the Daily Princetonian, Feb 5, 2014

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"The work that this NGO is doing, with so much compassion, this must inspire us all." -- Suhel Seth, Journalist.

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