User:Rati Ranjan Roy

Rati Ranjan Roy is a Senior News Journalist and Social Activist. He is the editor of North-East News & Views. He was the Chief News Editor of The Frontier Sun, and Dainik Sonar Cachar. He was also the Northeast Correspondent of Amrita Bazar Patrika and Northern India Patrika. He was a columnist with Current and India Post, Bombay besides other national and regional newspapers.

As a journalist Mr Roy extensively covered India's troubled North-East, Bangladesh and Burma and is considered an expert in insurgency. He also held assignments in Guwahati, Calcutta and New Delhi.

As a social activist, Rati Ranjan Roy was associated with All Cachar-Karimganj-Hailakandi Students' Association (ACKHSA) and held the post of the student organizations Adviser which he holds till today. His role in the establishment of a central university (now ASSAM UNIVERSITY) in Barak Valley of Assam is unparalleled. In 1995, he formed BARAK GANA PARISHAD of which he is the founder President to spearhead a mass movement for creation of a separate state of Barakland to be carved out of Barak Valley districts of Assam. He is the person who fired the imagination of the people why a separate state of Barakland is the only solution.