From voting to victory: A visual essay on the Turkish elections

As a political anthropologist, I have observed and written about theories and practices of democracy across…

The many silences and problems in the BBC documentary on Modi

Astonishingly, the BBC documentary is silent about counterterrorism accompanied by Islamophobia.

Destruction of Babri Masjid and phantom of Nehruvian Secularism

As 6 December 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the illegal, state-mediated destruction of the Babri Masjid, it is high time…

The Nexus between Islamophobia in the West and in the Subcontinent

Many have written separately about Western Islamophobia and Islamophobia in the Global South. The aim of…

The move to nationalize Shaheen Bagh in such terms, however, is contradictory. How can nationalism counter…

Shaheen Bagh is not an event of the past, it is an interrupted future – Part I

Third, drawing on writings by Derrida, Deleuze, Gluckman, Geertz, and others, my contention is that Shaheen…