Anirban Biswas

Anirban Biswas
Anirban Biswas (b. 1952) was educated at the Presidency College, Kolkata and at the University of Calcutta. He is a regular contributor to the well known English weekly, Frontier. For over two decades, he has been teaching economics at K.C. College in West Bengal.
The name Frontier will not be familiar to young people of the current generation, but those who grew up in the 1960s and '70s would have certainly heard of the publication and its founder-...

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Roger Jeffery
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