ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Datta
Being all through a student of Calcutta University since Matriculation, the author completed his post-graduation in 1958 and joined college service in 1959. While in service, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1971. He published a large number papers in the economic Notebook of renowned Newspapers as will as Economic Journals. When the categorization of college teachers introduced by the UGC for the first time in 1986, he was promoted by the UGC for the first time in 1986, he was promoted to the post of Reader. He would become a Professor but there is no post of professor in the Non-Government colleges in W.B. Being committed of Principal of a college. He underwent an orientation course as Academic Councillor in the Eastern regional Centre in Calcutta of the Indira Gandhi national Open University in 1991 and has been continuing since then in that capacity (Counseling in postgraduate level). He emulates the spirit, (in his opinion, as a humble student), of Marxism that has imbibed in his think –reservoir an outlook of treating Social Science – and explaining social phenomena – in its totality embracing Political Economy, Political Philosophy, History and Sociology, and More importantly, from the standpoint of a [particular philosophy, while expressing his position in regard to the same in the words of karl Marx himself, “All I Know is that I am not a Marxist†in the same sense as the great philosopher, obviously with far greater humility. On Philosophical plane, the author is an existentialist in individual life. He considers human freedom as sacrosanct above everything else. To him, the extent of freedom enjoyed by the people of a society is the index of development and cultural advancement; the denial of freedom to himself and/or others is the most immoral act perpetrated by man.
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