Prasenjit Biswas

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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.

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 writes occasionally in The Statesman on issues related to Northeast India^[2] and often shares his views in national and international media.