Debajyoti Gangopadhyay
Looking for the best possible modes of engagements with Indian knowledge systems from the modern perspective
As a writer I am only 15 years old , because It took time to sum up my experience in a way to figure out what can be written from what not ! I think what I write can be best described as travelogue - travelogue in abstract knowledge domains . Whatever I have written so far dealt with the interdisciplinary areas - mainly where physics cuts through the edges of philosophy as well as different knowledge domains of Indian origin .I also write extensively on significant follow up of the colonial issues.
I have recently edited two volumes of Nalanda Dialogue Series, which are the outcome of our two decades of experience of conducting interdisciplinary Dialogues in Nalanda among scientists and Philosophers. Three other books in Bengali are soon to be published - one is a detailed response to the famous Needham Question that, in spite of a rich empirical tradition why science did not develop in India or Chiana , but in 17th century Europe ? I gave an answer here . My second book is on the history of Indian Philosophy of the last 1000 years starting from the decline of Buddhist Monastic universities during the end of 12th century . The third one is something of a self ethnographic account of my personal experience with my own fractured scholastic tradition - kind of my dialogue with the collective Past I am psychically a part of . Finally I also aspire to write sometimes about my experience of living with Sunya ! Let me introduce you to my Books in more details now .
This book is on the history of Indian Philosophy of the last 1000 years starting from the decline of Buddhist Monastic centers for learning like Nalanda, Bikramshila, Odontpuri during the end of 12th century. This Book is an account of my extensive travel through different places of North and South Bihar - the ancient hub of learning where most of the Indian philosophical traditions like Sankhya, Upanishads, Buddhism, Jainism and other radical atheist schools developed .
