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 continents – Australia, Europe, India, the USA and beyond. It is this very interest, which took me to a polling booth during the second round of the 2023 Turkish Presidential elections for which the voting took place on Sunday, 29 May.
The many silences and problems in the BBC documentary on Modi
Astonishingly, the BBC documentary is silent about counterterrorism accompanied by Islamophobia.
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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 to examine the prevalent myth of “Nehruvian secularism” for two reasons.
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 this article is to show how both work in tandem. I focus on much-publicized media coverage of a recent viral video about the merciless beating of a minor student by a teacher in Bangladesh’s madrasa.
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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 Bagh is better understood as a supranational, supraliberal...
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