"সব পাখি ঘরে ফিরে: ঘর ছেড়ে ঘরে ফেরার বাস্তু দর্শন": Arindam Chakrabarti at Bengal Institute

Bengal Institute Lecture Series: 14th October 2015: Public Lecture 7: "সব পাখি ঘরে ফিরে: ঘর ছেড়ে ঘরে ফেরার বাস্তু দর্শন: All Birds Fly Back Home: Home and the Door in Philosophy of Architecture" by Arindam Chakrabarti at Chhayanaut Auditorium, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Learn more about Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements at https://bengal.institute,   / bengalinstitute  
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ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI:
Arindam Chakrabarti is a full-time thinker. Prolific in writing, his work covers Western, Indian and Bengali knowledge-base and aesthetics. Currently teaching philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Prof. Chakrabarti received his MA from Presidency College, Kolkata, and PhD from Oxford University (working under Sir Peter Strawson and Sir Michael Dummett). After being trained as an analytic philosopher of language at Oxford, Prof. Chakrabarti spent several years receiving traditional training in Indian logic (Navya Nyaya). Prof. Chakrabarti has edited or authored nine books, in English, Sanskrit, and Bengali, including “Denying Existence,” “Knowing from Words” (with B.K. Matilal) “Universals, Concepts and Qualities” (with Peter Strawson), and has published more than eighty papers and reviews. He edited the recently published “The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art.”

Arindam Chakrabarti started with describing the photo used in the promo poster of his lecture in which Parbati is coming home on a lion and poor Shiva walking along. Using humour and literary references, Chakrabarti continued explaining the etymology of Bengali words related to home and dwelling. He declared, there are 11 defining features of a home, the eleven conditions that turn a building or a shelter into someone’s home. The talk also shed lights on social problems and stigmas related to home and gender.