Keshab Mandal

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Keshab Chandra Mandal is a renowned teacher, researcher, columnist, inspirational speaker, and author of India. Presently he teaches in a Government Sponsored High School in Kolkata. Along with his teaching profession since the last two decades, he has deeply engaged himself in higher academic activities through serious research and publication of books and articles. He is the author of 14 books, and three monographs, and published more than four dozen academic articles in national and international newspapers, journals, and magazines. Also, he was the editor-in-chief of an e-magazine - Spirituality and Politics, and a Bengali newspaper - the Shilaboti. Presently he is on the editorial board of The World United, a monthly e-magazine, and International Journal of Leading Research Publication (IJLRP), an international peer-reviewed open-access online journal.

He has presented papers and delivered lectures in several national and international seminars, conferences, and symposiums and was invited to attend conferences in various universities from Europe such as V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; University of Leeds, UK, etc. He is a life member of the West Bengal Political Science Association and former member of the Jadavpur Association of International Relations. He is also a life member of the Bengal Institute of Political Studies (BIPS). His fields of interest are gender empowerment, local governments, and development studies. This author obtained his first M.A. degree in Political Science from Kalyani University (1991), two more M.A. degrees from Madurai Kamraj University (2006 & 2008) and Ph. D. Degree from Vidyasagar University (2009), and successfully completed an ICSSR-sponsored research project (2015-2017) as it’s Project Director. Out of his total 14 publications, four works in six publications in the English language have 46 world library holdings.