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Saturday, 8 July 2017

THE END OF HUMANS




"The End of Humans" is an attempt to restore Humanness, homo sapiens sapiens, species being, who is now being endangered by different manufactured conflicts.


Foregrounding Fundamentalism, Foreclosing Fundamentalism



Seminar on "Communalism, Fundamentalism and its expanded territory: Jihad, Intolerance, Conversion"
Organized by Amra ek Sachetan Prayas. 
Time: 2pm - 5pm, Date 17.5.16
Venue: Mahabodhi Society Hall, College Street, Kolkata. 




Abstract 

1. My watch is right, your watch is wrong: The problems of our own fundamentalism: “fundamental” and “original”  knowledge and truth-claims.  This attitude leads to violence : annihilation of others.


2. Foreclosure of market fundamentalism and foregrounding of religious fundamentalism.Sponsorship of  “dangerous class” through the module of race, language and religion by the market fundamentalist masters of the universe. Deliberate implementation Malthusian theory of positive (?) checks for the sake of primitive accumulation. Bankers’ role in manufacturing conflict.

3. Problems of state secularism (interpreted  as sarvadharmasamabhava instead of “not religious, not spiritual). The positives and negatives of sampradaya. The problems of state-sponsored sampradaya- the hybrid space (khaki shorts and saffron flags) and mimicry (Hindu as mirror image of organized religion)
4. Jihad as manufactured tool vis a vis jihad as counter-hegemony: Visions of Simone Machard.

5. Is/are there any outside(s)? My journey: negating religion and purana with the help of darsana. The theory of alternity or vaikalpikata. Praxis of asvikritigrahana (accepting a legitimate possibility) and svikritigrahana (committing oneself to supposed truth-room). Proposing anekantavada as a method without imperatives.

Friday, 9 June 2017

আপনি কি কমিউনিস্ট?



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০১৩। "আপনি কি কমিউনিস্ট?" শ্রয়ণ বার্ষিক সংখ্যা (৯-১০ পাতা). কলকাতা।  

শ্রয়ণ-এর সম্পাদক প্রশ্ন করেছিলেন বেশ কয়েকজনকে,"আপনি কি কমিউনিস্ট?" তারই প্রত্যুত্তরে এই বয়ান!

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Thursday, 11 May 2017

FOLK AND NON-FOLK: QUESTIONING THE DICHOTOMY


Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay *

^ দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়



This talk was presented at  the International Folklore Winter School (17-24 December, 2016) organized by the International Association of Comparative Literature, Society and Culture. Venue:  Institute of Advanced Research
The Puri Foundation, Koba Institutional Area
Gandhinagar - 382007 (Gujarat), INDIA
Research Interests: 

Scraps on Indian Atheism

Satyagraha at the Age of Post-Truth Society



Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay *

^ দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়



View it @ https://goo.gl/e0MBtK 



ক্যাশলেস থেকে মানিলেস (From Cashless to Moneyless Society)



Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay *

^ দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়



২০১৭। 'ক্যাশলেস থেকে মানিলেস'। বিমুদ্রাকরণ: পুঁজি-আগ্রাসন বিরোধী চোখে। কলকাতা: একচেটিয়া আগ্রাসন বিরোধী মঞ্চ, Forum Against Monopolistic Aggression। (৫১-৫৪ পাতা)।
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Friday, 10 March 2017

ভাব ও অভাব নিয়ে ব্যাপক খ্যাপামি

ভাব ও অভাব নিয়ে ব্যাপক খ্যাপামি

Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay 


২০১৭।”ভাব ও অভাব নিয়ে ব্যাপক খ্যাপামি”। একতারা। সম্পা। অর্ণব সেনগুপ্ত। (৪৫-৫৮ পাতা)।কোলকাতা।

Thursday, 2 March 2017

BHIM AND SINGH: INCOMMENSURABLE 'IDOLS'?

BHIM AND SINGH: INCOMMENSURABLE ‘IDOLS’?

DEBAPRASAD BANDYOPADHYAY


2017. “BHIM AND SINGH: INCOMMENSURABLE ‘IDOLS’?”. Ambedkar, Dalit Movement and The Left. Other Voice/ Anya svar. Special issue. (pp. 68-73)  2017. Akhar Bandyopadhyay ed. Endeavor of Bhagat Singh’s Socialist India (https://www.facebook.com/nbshsra/) concentrating on the relationship between Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Com. Bhagat Singh.

Saturday, 25 February 2017

"আর 'হরিনামামৃত ব্যাকরণ' পড়া হয়ে উঠলো না"


DEBAPRASAD BANDYOPADHYAY

২০১৭। "আর 'হরিনামামৃত ব্যাকরণ' পড়া হয়ে উঠলো না"। ইন্টারঅ্যাকশন ভাষা ও ভাবনার  সম্পা. প্রণব চক্রবর্তী। সংখ্যা ১৩। (৭-১৬ পাতা)


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Saturday, 9 July 2016

Non-Linguistics of Silenceme: Lalon

Non-Linguistics of Silenceme: Lalon

Translated from Bangla Article:
The author, as a member of linguist community, of this paper had tried decipher one song of Fakir Lalon Shah (1774–1890 A.D.), one of the line of which is like this “ When silence would swallow non-silence” by deploying various methods of Mandyukoponisad, Bhatrihari’s three stages of languages (baikhari, madhyma, pasyanti) and Abhinavagupta’s paravak. Different body-parts, according to Tantrika world-views, were also illustrated to understand silenceme. The author also incorporated Kabir (1440–1518 A.D.) and Dadu’s (1544–1603 A.D.) epistemological concepts of silenceme, which were beyond the periphery of ‘modern’ linguistics, though physicists are now interested to know the brain-function of such meditative states by using SPECT and PET scan as a part of their anatomo-bio-political agenda. The author ultimately proposed a new disciplinary technology, called “Silence Studies”. In this case, John Cage’s musical compositions deeply influenced the author.
For Bangla Version, see: https://goo.gl/AKDBXI
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