Dr. Avishek Biswas

Assistant Professor, Vidyasagar College (Calcutta University). PhD from Jadavpur University. Co-Author of 'Being Hindu in Bangladesh' (Harper Collins, 2023)

[Dr. Avishek Biswas @ProfAvishek]

The more I talk to these elderly Dalit Bengali Partition survivors, the more I feel we haven’t yet turned many pages of history! Collecting these Bengali partition survivors’ narratives living outside Bengal

[Dr. Avishek Biswas @ProfAvishek]

“যস্মিন দেশে যদাচার”
I hope the present BJP government in West Bengal knows this!
Respecting the people’s mandate makes you invincible in politics. The other side of the coin makes you Didi!

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

"I dream of a day when no writer has to walk under police guard for what they write."

It took 19 years and two political parties to lose power in Bengal for Taslima Nasrim to return to Kolkata. Hope she gets to be in her beloved Bengal freely now.

[Dr. Avishek Biswas @ProfAvishek]

@deepscribble And also, his first ever Bengali film was a path breaking one! Something that will stay for long…

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

The Assamese translation of our 2023 book 'Being Hindu in Bangladesh' is out. The Bengali translation was published in 2024. If you read Assamese, you may pick it up. With @ProfAvishek @swatichopra1.

https://t.co/bU6NjWYZPZ

[Dr. Avishek Biswas @ProfAvishek]

The Fall of Bastille. West Bengal, May 2026

[Dr. Avishek Biswas @ProfAvishek]

Congratulations Deep da…😊

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

New Book Alert: On June 7, 2025, we spoke to Sheikh Hasina over the phone. Almost a year had passed since she fled Bangladesh and came to India and we wanted to know what she felt about Bangladesh without her in power. Hasina told us what she thought about the July Revolution and Bangladesh under Muhammad Yunus. We also spoke to her ministers, members of her security detail, and officers in Bangladeshi military intelligence still loyal to her who helped @joyincal09 recreate the scenes inside Haina's official residence on the day she left.

We also spoke to Hasina's political opponents who told us why she had it coming for a long time.

But our book is not about Hasina, her mistakes or her political future.

'Inshallah Bangladesh' is about the extraordinary events of 2024 that changed the lives of Bangladesh's ordinary people. Like my co-author @SahidulKhokonbd who became an anti-national for writing against radical Islam and had to run for his life, and the 266 other journalists like him implicated in various cases.

It is about young women who are afraid of playing football, and Sufis who watch helplessly as their mazars are pulled down, and Hindus who are trying to get used to hearing open calls of genocide. And young military officers trying to make sense of a General's betrayal.

The book is also about past fissures shaping present politics. About stories that are not published. Like a dystopian novel about Sheikh Mujib finding currency after Hasina's fall. About the call for a Hindu homeland that is as old as the call for Bangladesh. About atheist bloggers once forced out of Bangladesh returning to save Bangladesh's soul.

If the July Revolution promised a New Bangladesh, our book examines why the students' party that emerged from it is already so unpopular. Inshallah Bangladesh is the story of an unfinished revolution that did not begin in 2024. @swatichopra1 @juggernautbooks
Here's the preorder link: https://t.co/kP0S7JB9Cg

[Danish Manzoor Bhat 📕 @TellDM]

When the smoke clears and headlines shift, those who bled quietly are forgotten.

On the last day of war in Uri, Jammu & Kashmir, I stood where Pakistani shells had fallen—not on bunkers, but on homes, food stores, and childhoods.

I heard their silence. And now, I’m sharing it.

[Sangam Talks @sangamtalks]

Join us at the IHAR Annual Conference 2025 for a thought-provoking panel discussion on “Bengal’s Heritage – Diversity in Literature, Languages, and Dialects” featuring Deep Halder, Dr. Avishek Biswas, and moderated by Soumya Sil at the National Library of India, Kolkata, on February 23rd, 2025, from 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM—delve into Bengal’s rich literary and linguistic legacy! Register now: https://t.co/DrTABwWkdy |
@PrasunRoy1981 @iharedu @aditya_sanatani @NationalLib_GoI @deepscribble
@ProfAvishek #IHAR2025 #BengalHeritage #Literature #Languages #Culture

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

Discontent creators.

[Dr. Avishek Biswas @ProfAvishek]

@aprofromindia @deepscribble @swatichopra1 কলকাতা বইমেলায় ৪২৭ নাম্বার স্টল

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

Been more than a year since the book came out. Still on the shelves. Still in good company. With @ProfAvishek @swatichopra1

[Dr. Avishek Biswas @ProfAvishek]

@Suryadev_7 @deepscribble @rajnathsingh Thank you

[Suryadev Singh Bisen @Suryadev_7]

Had the opportunity to meet Shri @rajnathsingh jee.
It’s always lovely meeting the Hon’ Def Min.
Presented him @deepscribble @ProfAvishek ‘s book ‘Being Hindu in Bangladesh’.
Was blessed to get his insights and guidance regarding some contemporary issues.

[College Street Kolkata @indiceconomics]

Hey Bengalis, have you bought @deepscribble & @ProfAvishek 's book on Bangladeshi Hindus yet?

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

Launching the Bengali edition of 'Being Hindu in Bangladesh' was satisfying. Having mom tell her Partition tales was priceless. With @ProfAvishek @swatichopra1 @HarperCollinsIN.

[Dr. Avishek Biswas @ProfAvishek]

@deepscribble @swatichopra1 @HarperCollinsIN What a frame 😍

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

"বাংলাদেশের হিন্দুদের করুণ অবস্থার জন্য দায়ি কারা-কেন আজও হিন্দু-বিরোধী দাঙ্গা হয়? এই প্রশ্ন তুললেন 'বাংলাদেশের হিন্দু হিন্দুর বাংলাদেশ' বই��়ের দুই লেখক দীপ হালদার ও অভিষেক বিশ্বাস।"
Thank you @AajTakBangla
https://t.co/cv1zizragb

[College Street Kolkata @indiceconomics]

An absolute honor to get invited to the launch of the Bengali translation of the book Being Hindu in Bangladesh (Harper Collins), called বাংলাদেশের হিন্দু : হিন্দুদের বাংলাদেশ, here with co-authors Deep Halder one of the most significant journalists in India and an authority on Bangladesh & West Bengal affairs, you probably check out his work with The Print, and Dr. Avishek Biswas, a scholar of Dalit victims of Partition and 1971.
@deepscribble @ProfAvishek

[College Street Kolkata @indiceconomics]

Deep Halder and Avishek Biswas's launch of the Bengali translation of the book Being Hindu in Bangladesh.
বাংলাদেশের হিন্দু : হিন্দুদের বাংলাদেশ।

@deepscribble

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

Smritikana Biswas was 12 when riots broke out in Noakhali. Too young to understand why. Too old to never forget what she saw. Her broken memories guided her grandson @ProfAvishek and me in our journey to document the plight of Bangladeshi Hindus. In death, like in life, she remains our guiding light.