Prasenjit Biswas teaches Philosophy at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. 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. He defended human rights of labourers and their familites in tea gardens of Barak Valley of Assam, who faced deaths due to starvation in 2011–12. The National Human Rights' Commission of India granted relief and compensation to some of the families who suffered due to starvation deaths. Prasenjit Biswas also contributed to fourth UPR process initiated by WGHR, New Delhi. Prasenjit Biswas specializes in continental philosophy and phenomenology with an emphasis on Jacques Derrida. 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 Al Jazeera.
Political economy of underdevelopment of North-East India, Akansha Pub. House, 2004.
The Postmodern Controversy: Understanding Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas, Rawat Publications, 2005.
Ethnic life-worlds in north-east India: an analysis, New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
Construction of Evil in north east India, Sage Between Philosophy and Anthropology: Aporias of Language, Thought and Consciousness, Notion Press, Chennai, 2017.
Books edited
Peace in India's North-East: Meaning, Metaphor, and Method: Essays of Concern and Commitment, New Delhi: Regency, 2006
Construction of Evil in North East India: Myth, Narrative and Discourse New Delhi: Sage, 2012.
Recent articles
"Phenomenology and Ontology of Humiliation" in Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies, Vol.X, Summer, 2013, pp. 180–202.
"Daya Krishna's 'Presuppositionsless Philosophy': Sublimity as a Source of Value and Knowledge" In Shail Mayaram 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, Oct-Dec.,2011,Vol.XXVIII,No.4, pp. 129–167.
"The Inscrutable substance of Ontology" in Sociological Bulletin, 62, January–April, 2013, pp. 124–29.
"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, vol.XXVIII, No.1, pp. 115–134.
