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Prasenjit Biswas is an Indian professor of philosophy at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes ethno-philosophy, ethnicity, and indigenous identities. [1] He is a human rights defender who works with Barak Human Right Protection Committee ( BHRPC), Silchar. The BHRPC defended human rights of labourers and their families in tea gardens of Barak Valley of Assam, who faced deaths due to starvation in 2011–12.
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Rooted in a Sanskritic tradition of doing Darsana in a family of traditional Indian philosophers, he develops a dialogic interface between heterodox Indian philosophical traditions and European and Continental philosophical world-views. His current works are a return to an interdisciplinary worldview traditions in which he combines a policy paradigm such as India's Act East with Southeast and East Asian traditions from a contemporary Indian philosophical point of view of 'Swaraj in Ideas' and Rabindranath Tagore's Cosmopolitan universalism. In the recently held World Congress of Philosophy, He conducted a round table on "Indigenous Philosophy". The round table discussed possibilities of transcultural understanding of universality of unrepresented archipelegean, mountainous and spiritually rich traditions of en-worlded philosophies from aboriginal groups and communities. He has successfully guided about 12 doctoral theses as part of his professional research career. His areas of supervision includes Cognitive turn in Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness Studies, Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science.
He writes occasionally in The Statesman on issues related to Northeast India [2] and often shares his views in national and international media on a variety of socio-political issues. Recently he covered a whole lot of critical political issues in Indian media as an independent political commentator:https://muckrack.com/prasenjit-biswas/articles
