Ratan Lal Basu


Ratan Lal Basu is an economist and English fiction author. Most of his books and articles in economics are based on ancient Indian economic ideas, especially embedded in the epics, dharmasastras and Arthasastra of Kautilya and their modern relevance. He is also specialized in yoga and tantra cult and has written several books and articles on these topics.

Childhood and parents

The place of birth of Dr. Ratan Lal Basu is the village Belakoba in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India. He was born on 23 December 1948. His father Sri Mahendra Lal Bose was educated from St. 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. Ratan Lal Basu now resides at Birati, North 24 Parganas.

Education

Dr. Basu studied in and passed Higher Secondary Examination from Belakoba High School 17 km from Jalpaiguri town.
Dr. Basu did his Honors and M.A. degrees in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata, then affiliated with the University of Kolkata, and at present upgraded to Presidency University, Kolkata, and did Ph.D. on the Arthashastra of Kautilya, a treatise on Economics, Politics and Espionage, written around 300 B.C.

Service

Dr. Basu joined a Government-sponsored college affiliated with the University of Calcutta, as a Lecturer in Economics and later on became a Reader and retired as the Teacher-in-Charge.
He was the Treasurer, Bengal Economic Association from June 2009 to May 2014.
He has been a faculty of Fundación MenteClara, Berazategui, Buenos Aires, Argentina since 26 September 2020.

Collection of Short Stories

Bengali

অসাধারণ সুন্দর ও অন্যান্য গল্পগণেশ ঠাকুরের ভক্ত ও অন্যান্য গল্পডায়ারির পাতা থেকেদূরের পাহাড় ও অন্যান্য গল্প প্রতিবিম্বভাত-ডাল দেবেতো! ও অন্যান্য গল্প
  • "নীল পাহাড় ও অন্যান্য গল্প" গল্পের ফুলঝুরি
  • ''স্মৃতির পাতা থেকে''

English

Blue Are the Far Off MountainsDream In A Rainy DayHorror Of YakshiniMod Lady and the PrabhusStories for Children
  • ''Blue Bird of the Pacific Island''

Novels

Bengali

  • স্বপ্ন স্মৃতি বাস্তব
  • ''স্বপ্ন''

English

The Oraon and His Tree FriendThe Curse of the Goddess

Travelogue

Fantastic Hill Trek
  • ''Tagore, Hepburn and Shahrukh Khan''

Economics

Ancient Indian Economic Thought, Relevance for TodayMaterial Progress, Ethics & Human DevelopmentKautilya's Arthashastra : Economic IdeasMahabharata, the Great Indian Epic: Economic IdeasManusmriti, the Hindu Law Book: Economic IdeasGlimpses of the Indian Economy: Ancient & ModernEconomic Concepts: Ancient & ModernGlobal Crisis and Adam SmithDemocracy and Future of MankindThe Political Economy of Ancient IndiaAncient Indian Political EconomyPrice Control Mechanism in ArthasastraPoverty, Amartya Sen and Adam Smith
  • ''Price Policy in Arthasastra''

Hindu philosophy

Raj YogaKarma YogaPrinciples of Hatha YogaBhakti YogaLord Krishna MysteryAtharva Veda, A Brief OutlineTantra CultTantra Cult and Yoga
  • "Scientific and Beneficial Aspects of Tantra Cult"
  • "Panchatantra and Its Lessons"

Espionage

Horror of Soviet Secret PoliceStories of SpiesEspionage Agency Mossad and Eichmann DramaEspionage Mechanism in the Arthasastra of KautilyaEspionage Agencies and Remarkable SpiesCold War, KGB & Soviet Social ImperialismEspionage Methods and The Horror of Echelon-Imint and The CIA
  • ''Atomic Espionage and Atom Spies''