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Somnath Bhattacharyya is a psychoterapist and emeritus professor of psychology at University of Calcutta, where he has been head of the Psychology Department. He has been widely quoted by Ramakrishna's followers for his critical review of Kripal's Kali's Child.

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Bhattacharyya is claimed to be fluent in Bengali and familiar with the primary source material used by Kripal. In addition to pointing out that Kripal is not qualified in psychoanalysis, he says the textual errors in Kali's Child are "particularly grave", and "large scale distortions of source material in an ill attempted effort at establishing a thesis, is certainly not academically acceptable."

Material from the Infinity site

Professor Somnath Bhattacharyya is a practising psychoanalyst. He teaches psychology at the Calcutta University, and was head of the department prior to his retirement a few years ago.. He became a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1961. He has been practising as a psychoanalyst – Training Analyst and Control Analyst – of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society for over 30 years. He had studied philosophy at the Indian Academy of Philosophy, Calcutta. and has also been an Academic Committee member of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.

He has over a dozen papers in scientific Journals on Psychology. He has also contributed to texts on psychology and written on psychology and psychoanalysis for popular Journals.