Dr. Partha Banerjee is a human rights activist, writer,[4] educator,[5] public speaker,[6] media critic,[7] and musician.

[8] Born and raised in Kolkata (Calcutta), Banerjee now lives in New York with frequent visits to India.

He has taken a voluntary retirement from his prestigious labor educator position at International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 3, to spend extensive time in India.

[citation needed] He is busy working with secular and progressive groups and movements for peace, equality, social and religious harmony, and justice.

[citation needed] Banerjee quit RSS out of ideological disillusionment with the organization's alleged militant, fundamentalist doctrine, yet without disavowing his deep roots in Hinduism.

[22] In 1999, Dr. Banerjee quit his science career, and moved to New York City to pursue his third master's degree, this time from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

He also received a Scripps-Howard fellowship[23] to travel with a group of fellow students to Israel, Palestine and Jordan, to report on religions of that region.

After a brief stint as a science journalist, and producing a number of two-minute-long stories for ScienCentral, an ABC TV-affiliate company in New York, he began working for a grassroots immigrant rights group New Immigrant Community Empowerment,[24] in the aftermath of the tragedies of September 11, 2001.

[30] One of his major responsibilities has been to design and teach an April-to-November, interactive, critical-thinking labor workshop[31] on various political, social and economic subjects.

Publications in the U.S.,[32] India[33] and Bangladesh have published Dr. Banerjee's books and articles in English and Bengali languages.

A Bangladesh-based, online literary magazine[34] has published Ghotikahini,[35] his Bengali-language memoir, in weekly segments.

Since 2007, he has been teaching as the labor educator at IBEW Local 3 and Joint Board of Electrical Industries in New York.

His critical-thinking interactive workshops are enormously popular: he has taught on political, economic, social, scientific, and environmental subjects.

[37] Dr. Banerjee has earned reputation as a public speaker addressing large and small gatherings in indoor and outdoor settings.

In April 2019, he was the keynote speaker at IBEW Local 3's Annual Scholarship Breakfast program for college-bound children of the union members.

[6] Noted publications such as the New York Times,[38] CNN,[39] the Progressive,[32] Outlook India,[40] Ananda Bazar Patrika,[41] Ebela, The Statesman and Aajkaal have published his letters and articles, or quoted him on various issues, especially his work on human rights and rights and justice for underprivileged immigrants.

[45] In 2005, after having worked as the post-production translator of Oscar-winning documentary Born into Brothels, he came out with a strong critique[46] of the movie, pointing out its "ethical and stylistic flaws."

Voice of America's Bengali radio section has found him as a speaker on many of their shows especially those pertaining to immigrants and human rights.

[47] Banerjee wrote and spoke—both in English and Bengali—on the subjects of cultural erosion and "kitsch," and drew illustrations from the life and creations of Nobel Poet Rabindranath Tagore.

In 2012, Banerjee published "Aro Ektu Bosho" (Stay a Little More), his solo CD album of Tagore songs.

[48] Dr. Banerjee began his political career in India as a member of right wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) because of familial connections: his father has been a lifelong activist of the organization.

After working informally with left-leaning organizations both in India and USA, he developed his own, unique political and social doctrine.

He designed a broad-based, coalition-building model to bring together all the moderate and non-violent, working men and women—both from the left and right—to a common platform.

He calls it the Second Circle, as illustrated in his publication Second Circle—Middle Majority of the Working People[50] Books (1) Banerjee, Partha.

Second Circle: Middle Majority of the Working People: A Simple Spin Wheel Model to Build Alliance and Power across the Soft "Left and Right".

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