Subhoranjan Dasgupta was born in Calcutta in 1949. He was a student of English Literature at Presidency College (Calcutta) and Calcutta University. After receiving his MA Degree he joined the Ananda Bazar Patrika Group as a journalist. In 1975 he went to Cologne (Germany) to work as Editor for the Voice of Germany and thereafter he lived for six years in Heidelberg. Germany’s famous university-town, and obtained his Ph.D.Degree. His area of research was Marxian Aesthetics and Sociology of Literature. He rejoined Ananda Bazar Patrika in 1984 and soon established himself as a leading critic and analyst of culture and politics. In 1997 he joined the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies as Visiting Fellow. At present he is a Senior Visiting Fellow of the School of Women’s Studies (Jadavpur University).