Ratan Lal Basu is an economist and English fiction author from Kolkata, India.
Background
He was born on 23 December 1948. His father Sri Mahendra Lal Bose was educated from Saint Xavier’s School and College, Calcutta, he later on got settled at the village Belakoba and played a pioneering role in establishing many schools in the remote villages of the Jalpaiguri district.
Education
Doctor Basu studied in and passed Higher Secondary Examination with brilliant results from Belakoba High School 17 km from Jalpaiguri town. Doctor Basu did his Honors and Master of Arts degrees in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata, then affiliated with the, and at present upgraded to Presidency University, Kolkata, and did Doctor of Philosophy on the Arthasastra of Kautilya, a treatise on Economics, Politics and Espionage, written around 300 British Columbia
Career
The place of birth of Doctor Ratan Lal Basu is the village Belakoba in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India. Doctor Doctor Basu joined the Bhairab Ganguly College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, as a Lecturer in Economics and later on became a Reader and retired as the Teacher-in-Charge (Acting Principal). As a Teacher-in-Charge he took initiative in completing the NAAC inspection of the college, streamlining the admission procedure to ensure justice to the applicants and completion of the long overdue asset registration.
He was the Treasurer, Bengal Economic Association (Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad) from June 2009 to May 2014.
At present he is the Principal and adviser to IIMS (Kolkata) - AIS (Street Helens, New Zealand) Cross Cr Program.