Sujit Kumar Chattopadyay is ex-chairman of the West Bengal Regional School Service Commission (Western Region). He was Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the Bankura Zilla Saradamani Mahila Mahavidyapith, Bankura. His published works include Revisiting Vivekananda: From Revival to Renaissance (2015), and the edited volume Politics of Discrimination and the Problem of Democratic Governance in India: Issues, Experiences and Challenges (2009). He is also the author of an anthology of Bengali poems and several texts on gender and folklore.