As a political anthropologist, I have observed and written about theories and practices of democracy across…
Author: Irfan Ahmad
Irfan Ahmad a political anthropologist, is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.
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…
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…