C. V. Ananda Bose (born 2 January 1951) is an Indian retired Indian Administrative Service officer of the batch of 1977 and politician, who served as the 21st Governor of West Bengal from 2022 until his resignation in 2026.
Ananda Bose was born at Mannanam in the Kottayam district of Keralam to freedom fighter P. K. Vasudevan Nair and Padmavathy Amma, a former government official.
Bose studied at St. EphremâÂÂs School, Mannanam; Kuriakose Elias College, Mannanam; and then at St. Berchmans College, Changanassery, before earning a Ph.D. from BITS, Pilani.
As the administrator of the National Museum, Bose launched a 100-day programme which spelt out specific measures to revamp and revitalise the institution. Most of the improvements suggested were achieved in 60 days, such as opening the closed-down galleries, modernising the display and lighting, launching outreach programmes to take the museum to the community, arranging children's programme to ignite young minds to the greatness of India's national heritage, organising international exhibitions and launching the People's Museum movement, to mention a few.
Ananda Bose is married to L. S. Lakshmi, and the couple has a son and a daughter. His daughter, Nandita Bose, died of cancer in 2017. He has 350 publications to his credit, including 70 books, consisting of novels, short stories, and poems in Malayalam, Hindi, English, and Bengali.
On 17 November 2022, Bose was appointed Governor of West Bengal by President Droupadi Murmu.. On 5 March 2026, he resigned from his post as the Governor of West Bengal via a letter to the President of India.
On 2 May 2024 Bose was accused of sexual harassment by a woman contractual staff of Raj Bhavan, Kolkata. The woman alleged that the Governor had âÂÂmolestedâ her on 24 April 2024. Bose completely denied the issue as maligning for political mileage during the 2024 Indian general election and hit back saying âÂÂtruth would triumph,â and he would not be âÂÂcowed down by engineered narratives". The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) also questioned the connections of the women with the governing Trinamool Congress. The woman filed her complaint which was forwarded to the Hare Street Police station. Kolkata Police set up an investigation team and have sought CCTV footages. On 15 May 2024, a different allegation of sexual harassment against Bose was raised by one Odissi dancer. The dancer lodged a complain and accused Bose and his nephew of sexual abuse at Start Hotel in Delhi in January 2023.