Ratan Bhattacharjee

Ratan is a bilingual writer and academician, he is Associate Professor and head of English literature in Motijheel College, Kolkata. He is a guest faculty at Rabindra Bharati University and a
member of the advisory board of International Theodore Dreiser Society, USA. He is the founder
director of the Dattani Archive and Research Association (DARA), Kolkata. He edits a journal,
authored several books, published poems and writes for several webzines. His book of love poems for his wife was translated into Assamese. He is also is a social media buff.

February 21, 2016
Ratan Bhattacharjee
Criticism

Love, Seduction and Sex: Three Sirens of Literature

Renowned writers have dealt with love, seduction and sex aesthetically and sensitively. Ratan takes a close look into the so-called ‘Victorian taboos’ and shows us how these ‘three sirens’ of literature...

February 11, 2016
Ratan Bhattacharjee
Education & Career

Fake Universities Doom Education in India

The Education Mafiosi is turning the temples of learning into education shops. There are 21 fake universities, 340 private institutions run unaccredited courses and merely 4352 universities and colleges, out of...

December 5, 2015
Ratan Bhattacharjee
Literature, Poem

Two Dark Poems

Different Truths introduces poems from this issue. Ratan pens two dark poems that deal with hatred, violence and deaths, unleashing untold miseries that men in the supreme ignorance bring...

November 30, 2015
Ratan Bhattacharjee
Criticism

Reaching out to Africa in Literature

Ratan maps the development of African Literature. African writings form the Fourth World Literature. This emerging voice has caught the attention of researchers and readers alike. Here’s an in-depth account. Jack...

November 24, 2015
Ratan Bhattacharjee
Gender

Superwoman and the Fourth Wave of Feminism

Ratan examines the emergence of Superwoman and the fourth wave of feminism, in a historical perspective. The New Woman has to strive very hard to establish her identity in the oppressive...

November 24, 2015
Ratan Bhattacharjee
Potpourri

Is Pen Mightier or Paper Dead!

Here the writer reminisces about pen. He is anguished that in this paper free era, pen has become redundant. Bygone is the day when we can stick to the famous...