Debaprasad Bandyopdhyay (b. 1965), Distinguished Member, La Filológica Por La Causa, through his 25 years journey in the realm of institutionalized academics did 28 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 is 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 (by default) to the post of Assistant Professor.
He has done following 27 research works:
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1.2006. Dept. of Clinical Psychology, Calcutta University.Resource Person. Workshop on Psycholinguistics (150 yrs. of Freud’s birth anniversary).
2.2006. Dept. of Pol. Sc., Calcutta Univ. UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course: Post-structuralism & Structuralism. Resource Person.
3.2006. Guest Faculty. Dept. of English (PG), Netaji Subhas Open University. Linguistics (PG)
4.2005-07.Supervisor, B.Tech. Vocational Training, Project work on NLP, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Govt.College of Engineering, Leather Technology, Heritage Engineering College, W. B.
5.2005& 10.Visting Faculty. Dept. of Sanskrit(PG), K.N. College. Sanskrit (PG)Sanskrit Grammar and Panini & Bhartrihari
6.2005-2010. Visting Faculty. Department of Bangla (PG), Netaji Subhas Open Univ.: General Linguistics, Syntax (PG) Bangla.
7.2004. Resource Person. Dept. of Bangla, Jadavpur Univ. UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course on Popular Bangla Literature.
8.2003-04.Advisor for Teachers' Training Program on 'Life Style Education' (WHO). W.B. Board of Secondary Education and State Aids Control Society.
9.2005.Advisor, State Council for Educational Research & Training, W.B.
10.2003.Resource Person. Central Inst. of Indian Languages, Mysore.An Advanced Course in Sociolinguistics :Post-Structural Sociolinguistics
11.2002.Resource Person. Dept. of Pol. Sc. Calcutta Univ. UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course on Contemporary Political Thinkers: Foucault, Derrida, Post- Modernism and Marxism.
12.2002. Resource Person. Dept. of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati Univ. UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course on Language and Consciousness: Mechanizing Transcendental Cogito: A Post- Structural critique of Language Structure and Linguistic Creativity.
13.2002 -03.Visiting Faculty. Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Hearing Handicapped, Eastern regional center. Bachelor of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology; Part-I course.General Linguistics
14.2001. Resource Person.Dept. of Education, Calcutta Univ. UGC-Sponsored 8th Refresher Course in Education :Language Learning in a Multilingual Classroom
15.2001. Resource Person. School of Media Communication and Culture, Jadavpur Univ. UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course on Folklore Studies and Cultural Tourism: Folklore and Folk-language
16. 2000. Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute Winter School on The Methods on Core Linguistics:General Linguistics, Research Methodology
17.1994-99. Visiting Faculty. Dept. of Folklore, Kalyani Univ. (P.G.) Linguistics and Comparative Folklore
18. 2010. Resource Person. Qualitative Research Methodology.Resource Person. CISSR & Dept. of Psychology. Orientation Course.
19. 2010-11. Resource Person. Deschooling & Mother-tongue Education in the plurilingual context. Pratham (UNICEF)
20. 2011.Dept. of Clinical Psychology, Cal. Univ. UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course:Behavioral Sc. Resource Person.Psycholinguistics & Indian Psychology.
21. 2011. Visiting Faculty. Dept. of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University
1.1995.Folklore and Folklanguage: Myth or Reality? West Bengal: Kalyani University.
2.2001. Linguistic Terrorism. Kolkata: Rabindra Bharati University.
3.2001.অনেকান্ত সাহিত্যতত্ত্ব Anekanta Sahityatattva. (The Theory of Plural Interpretation of Literary Texts, A Bilingual Publication) Kolkata: Alochona Chakra. ISBN 81-900930-0-2
4. .2010. Linguistics as “I” understand(s) it.
5. . 2011. kOthar entekal.
6.2012. লোক-অলোকের ধন্দে: লোকসংস্কৃতি —উপনিবেশের পাঠক্রম (Folklore: A colonial Discipline) Kolkata: Deep Prakashan
7.2012. অর্থ-নেতি NEGATION OF ECONOMICS