Synopsis Som Ranchan, known for his interdisciplinary ranging in the fields of literature, literary criticism, philosophy, religion, mythology, folklore, psychology and therapy, is a poet par excellence who has authored epic poems on Christ, Mother Shharda, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Krishna, Sri Aurobindo and Manjushri. In Baha’u’llah he has stepped out of mainstream traditioin and taken on the Semitic Prophetic tradition as emblematized in the Baha ‘i’ Prophet.