Partha Banerjee is a human rights and peace activist and a freelance writer and consultant, specializing on immigrant- and civil rights and liberties issues. His work is known for its multimedia component: he's used the various media forms effectively, both as the journalist and newsmaker.

Partha's post-9/11, anti-hate crimes work with the immigrant community in New York as well as his national coalition-building work received wide media coverage. Over the years, he's been interviewed and/or quoted by the New York Times, New Jersey Star-Ledger, The Progressive, New York Newsday, New York Daily News, Radio Pacifica, Z-Mag, Fox TV, NY1, Democracy Now!, Voice of America, BBC, National Swedish Radio, Deutsche Welle Radio, Indymedia, Commondreams, Ananda Bazar Patrika, The Telegraph, Outlook India, and other mainstream, alternative and ethnic media in U.S., Europe and South Asia. Bloggers both from the left and right have mentioned his work. Content search and web traffic information sites have generously recorded his political and media activism.

Partha has earned his Masters in journalism from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in plant biology from Southern Illinois University. He has published two books - one in English, the other in Bengali - on war, terrorism, human- and immigrant rights violation, religious fundamentalism, and media. He has written articles - scholarly papers, op-eds, news stories, non-fictions and fictions, and spoke at conferences and events in U.S., Canada, U.K., Bangladesh and India. A film and media critic, Partha runs a moderated mailing list for progressive journalists and activists worldwide. He is a first-generation immigrant from Kolkata, and lives in Brooklyn. Partha is fluent in Bengali and Hindi, and has picked up some Spanish and French.

He spends his leisure time, when there's one, on translating Bengali literature and dabbling into Indian music.

E-mail: chokmoki@yahoo.com
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/chokmoki
Blog: http://immigrantcivilrights.blogspot.com/