Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha

Prof. Dr. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, currently with the Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), Kolkata has been professor of English at Kazi Nazrul University, India. He has been awarded the 2025 Cambridge University Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South for his research stay at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge.

He has been the Leibniz ‘Value of the Past’ Fellow at the Peace Research Center, Frankfurt in 2023, a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Goethe University Frankfurt in 2022 and the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Translation Fellow at the British Centre for Translation Studies, University of East Anglia. He was Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow 2018-19 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2017, he was also a fellow at the Institute of Critical Social Inquiry at the New School for Social Research, New York.

Among his recent books are Deleuze and Guattari and Terror (co-edited, Edinburgh University Press, 2022); Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India: Historical Trajectories of Public Protest and Political Mobilization (co-authored, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); Literature, Cultural Politics and Counter-readings: Hamlet as the Prince of Deconstruction (Routledge and Aakar Books, 2021), Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives (co-edited, Routledge, 2019). He co-edits Kairos, A Journal of Critical Symposium. 

The project

Title: Global Complicity and Consent to Violence: Phenomenological and Deconstructive Inquiries

Hosting institution: Archives Husserl de Paris, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Selective Bibliography

• Purakayastha, A., (2024): Edited the Critical Edition of The Oriental Christ by P. C. Mozoomdar, Boston, Geo. H. Ellis, 141 Franklin Street, 1883 (New critical edition published by ILSR Press, Kolkata, 2024)
• Purakayastha, A., Das, S. S. Ed., (2022): Deleuze, Guattari and Terror. Edinburgh University Press. 264 pp.
• Purakayastha, A., Dutta, M., Ghosh, T. (2022): New Social Movement, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India. Palgrave Macmillan. 203 pp.
• Purakayastha A., with Subhendra Bhowmick, (2025), Towards Deconstructive Rationality: Pathologies of Reason and Immanentist Counter-discourses. In: Sociology of Rationality: Critiques and Creative Conversations, Eds., Soumyajit Patra, and Tatwamasi Paltasingh, (Routledge, Taylor and Francis)
• Purakayastha A., Critique in Dark Times: Centenary of Frankfurt School Critical Theory and its Global Relevance, accepted for publication in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW Engage) on September 5, 2024
• Purakayastha A., with Annika Skoglund, Fabiana Jardim and David Armstrong (2023), Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times, Foucault Studies, No. 35,1-20, December, 2023