ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Keshab C. Mandal is the Head Master of a Government sponsored High School in Kolkata, India. Also he teaches Political Science at a Government College in Kolkata as a guest lecturer. Previously he taught Political Science at a Government Higher Secondary school in the district of Paschim Medinipur, India. Along with teaching profession, this author has engaged himself in research and publications. He is the author of 10 books, three monographs and more than three dozens of articles in national and international academic and peer reviewed journals, magazines and newspapers. Also, he was the editor-in-chief of an e-magazine and a Bengali newspaper. He has presented papers and delivered lectures in more than a dozen national seminars, conferences and symposiums and was invited to attend conferences in various universities from Europe such as V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, University of Leeds etc. He is a life member of West Bengal Political Science Association and former member of Jadavpur Association of International Relations. His fields of interest are gender empowerment, local governments and development studies. This author also writes blogs, and maintains face book, twitter and LinkedIn accounts and updates his thoughts and views on various social issues that affect people and society in general, and women in particular. He obtained his first M.A. degree in Political Science from Kalyani University, two more M.A. degrees from Madurai Kamraj University and Ph. D. degree from Vidyasagar University, and successfully completed an ICSSR-sponsored research project as its project director. Out of his total ten publications, four works in six publications in English language has 42 world library holdings.

Books by this author

1. A Panorama of Ghatal (2006)

2. West Bengal: Problems and Prospects (2008)

3. Poetry: The Mirror of Society (2009)

4. West Bengal Government: The Issues and Constraints of Development (2010) ISBN-13: 978-8190806534

5. Empowerment of Women and Panchayati Raj: Experiences from West Bengal (2010) ISBN: 9788190806589
6. Gender and Empowerment: A Comparative Analysis of India and USA (2012) ISBN: 9789380663302

7. Barack Obama: The Harbinger of Peace and Prosperity (2013) ISBN-13: 978-3639510188

   8.  The Thoughts of an Unknown Indian (2014) ISBN-13: 978-3639717945

   9. Ghatal Pourasabha: Unnayan O Kichu Bhabna (in Bengali, 2014)

  10. Contemporary West Bengal: The Debate in Development and Governance (2016) ASIN: B01AHLVE9C