About Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay
Debaprasad Bandyopdhyay (b. 1965), through his 30 years journey in the realm of institutionalized academics did 27 different types of works, which are someway different from the earlier paradigms or, one might say that those works are not only mere reproductions of his inherited institutionalized cultural capital or a mimicry of a colonially imposed model that leads to intellectual anorexia or rather a type falsification of earlier paradigms.
However, that might be not only a lofty claim but it also hid the fact that all our information and knowledge are socially accumulated knowledge that was, it is matter of regret, posed as private property through the sign © and the wisdom is rarely available. Bandyopadhyay’s works and projects are the products of his social milieu.
Bandyopadhyay is a local sub-altern public sphere academician, who avoids the technical intelligentsia (followers of Sahib’s models and they are not committed to the persons who are accommodating surplus work-time to them by performing surplus labour) or inorganic intellectuals and thus fails to be a part of academic tribe and its subsequent socialization process. Of course, that socialization process does not lead to legendary Socratic dialogue.
He is also a political activist though he has not affiliated to any political parties as he was always talking about the corporatization of political parties within the money-sign-based democratic system. He is a regular participant in TV and radio talk-shows and documentary films, street-corners’ talks and International seminars on socio-political, psychological, linguistic, environmental and economic issues. He also writes editorial columns in newspapers.
He is also a part of parallel academics as it is found in West Bengal’s Little Magazine Movement, though that was not counted as the part his academic pursuit by his parent institute. His parent institute justifiably does not believe in the domain of parallel academics as this unorganized sector does not directly contribute in the transactions of formal/organized print capitalist eco-enemy paper-publication. Though the dissemination of knowledge is also observed in this space of these parallel academics as all these writings in public sphere simultaneously influence the classroom-discourse and some of them are translated into English, French and Italian.
Not only that, Bandyopadhyay also sought engagement with the people, who, by supplying their surplus labour, are sustaining his livelihood. Bandyopadhyay, a linguist by training and a Ph.D.-holder (1996), a junior lecturer (1999-2011) in an autonomous central government institute in India, tries his best for those from he has received and is receiving the manifestation of surplus labour by executing some self-funded projects on economic issues in West Bengal, India. Recently he has got a consolation promotion to the post of Assistant Professor.
He has done following 27 research works:
1. Crippled Creativity: An inquiry into language, psyche, society:
2. VALENCY OF BANGLA VERB AND PROBLEM OF COMPOUND VERBS:
3. Archaeology of Bangla Grammar :
4. CAN COMPUTER SPEAK?
5. FUZZY LOGICAL EXPRESSION IN BANGLA :
6. FOLKLORE AND FOLK-LANGUAGE: MYTH OR REALITY?
7. HISTORICISM IN THE DISCOURSE OF BANGLA LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
8. ABHABA, ECP, DELETION AND TRACE
9. SVATVA OR MY-NESS AND ECONOMIC ENTITLEMEMT
10. TRANSLATION STUDIES
11. MASCULINITY STUDIES
12. YAYATI & BABAR COMPLEX
13. SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS IN AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY IN WEST BENGAL
14. CONCEPT OF BODY IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND ARCHITECTURE
15. THE CONCEPT OF ERROR (KHYATI) IN MAD-(WO)MEN’S LANGUAGE
16. THE CONCEPT OF PERCEPTUAL TIME AND GRAMMATICAL TIME IN BANGLA
17. BANGLA CALLIGRAPHY, LANGUAGE ART AND LINGUISTIC PEDAGOGY
18. WO(L)D SPACES: NON-EXISTENCE OF WORDS
19. ANEKANTA METHODS
20. SILENCEME: SILENT OTHER IN LINGUISTICS
21. IMAGINED BOUDARIES AND PRE-COLONIAL INDIAN IMAGI-NATION
22. MAKING OF THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
23. SEGMENTING THE SUPRASEGMENTALS : MUSICKING IN SPEAKING
24. INTERPRETING GENETIC STRUCTURE BY DEPLOYING LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE
25. GLOTTOPOLITICS OF LINGUISTIC SUBALTERNITY OR AN AGENDA FOR PLANNING FROM BELOW
26. SEMIOTICS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
27. SOCIOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ACADEMICS
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