Talk:Sibaji Bandypadhyay

By Renuka Joshi

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay is a Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta as of June 2024. According to his CV, his areas of research interest include children’s literature, sexuality studies, translation and reception studies, Marxian studies, feminism, and Freudian studies.

As per his bio, he has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women in these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

1. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. Mahābhārata Now: Narrative, Aesthetics, Ethics, New Delhi: Routledge India, January 2014
2. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. Deshe Bangladeshe, Kolkata: Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University & Naya Udyog, 2002
3. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. ‘Aesthetics of Theft’, Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: the Contemporary Canvas, Ed. Arindam Chakrabarti, London: Bloomsbury Academic/Continuum (forthcoming)
4. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. ‘Producing and Reproducing the New Woman’, Being Bengali: At Homeand in the World, Ed. Mridula Nath Chakraborty, New Delhi: Routledge India, March 2014
5. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. Of Gambling’, Mahābhārata Now: Narrative, Aesthetics, Ethics, eds. Arindam Chakrabarti & Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, New Delhi: Routledge India, January 2014
6. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. ‘Defining Terror: A “Freudian” Exercise’, Science, Literature and Aesthetic, ed. Amiya Dev, PHISPC (Project of History of Indian Science,Philosophy and Culture), Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilization (CSC),2009, pp. 567-631
7. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. Approaching the Present—The pre-text: the Fire Controversy’ in The Phobic and the Erotic: Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India, ed. Brinda Bose & Subabrata Bhattacharyya, London-New York-Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2007, pp. 17-90
8. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. ‘Macaulay and Rammohun’, A South Asian Nationalism Reader, ed. Sayantan Dasgupta, Delhi and Kolkata: Worldview Publications, 2007, pp. 135-165
9. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. ‘Translating Gītā 2.47 or Inventing the National Motto’, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), ed. Manas Ray, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Volume XVI, Nos. 1 & 2, 2009, pp. 31-94
10. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. ‘A Critique of Non-violence’, Seminar, No. 608 (special number on the Mahābhārata), edited by Rakesh Pande, Delhi: April 2010, pp. 39-47
11. Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji. ‘India Today–A Response’, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kolkata: Scottish Church College, 2004