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North Eastern Hill University.
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Prasenjit Biswas
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His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes ethno-philosophy, ethnicity, and indigenous identities. He is also a human rights defender who works with Barak Human Right Protection Committee, Silchar. The National Human Rights" Commission (NHRC) of India granted relief and compensation to some of the families who suffered due to starvation deaths.
Prasenjit Biswas also contributed to fourth University of Puerto Rico process initiated by WGHR, New Delhi.
He has worked on Post-Marxist thoughts and currently exploring the notion of Aporia in Social Theory. He writes regularly in The Statesman on issues related to Northeast India and often shares his views in First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera.
Doctor Prasenjit Biswas obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from North Eastern Hill University. He was formerly with Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, and Assam University, Silchar.
180–202. "Daya Krishna"s "Presuppositionsless Philosophy": Sublimity as a Source of Value and Knowledge" In Shail Mayaram (ed) Philosophy as Samvad and swaraj, SAGE, New Delhi, forthcoming, pp.
133–54. "The Sense of self: Ka Rngiew, Tlawmngaihna and the Art of Not Being Governed" in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, October-December,2011,Volume(s).XXVIII,Number.4, pp.129-167. "The Inscrutable substance of Ontology" in Sociological Bulletin, 62(1), January–April, 2013, pp.
124–29. 115–134.
Politics
"Tagore"s Nationalism: In Search of a Proper Place of Identity Struggles of India"s Northeast" in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, January–March, 2011, volume.XXVIII, Number.1, pp.
Views
He defended human rights of labourers and their familites in tea gardens of Barak Valley of Assam, who faced deaths due to starvation in 2011-2012. Prasenjit Biswas specializes in continental philosophy and phenomenology with an emphasis on Jacques Derrida. "Phenomenology and Ontology of Humiliation" in Manitoba and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies, Volume(s).X, Summer, 2013, pp.
