This talk aims to analyze how Indigenous writers are creating a new site of signification in literature where the myth of the War on Drugs is deconstructed bringing to light how the State-sanctioned violence is a mechanism of dispossession.

A conversation with Sudha Nagavarapu and Dwijendra Nath Guru on: The Politics and Ecology of Food in India: History, Geography, Technology, Community

Through ethnographic research among the silsila (chain/spiritual genealogy) members of Naqshbandia Awaisia in Pakistan, my project focuses on the Sufi practice of zikr in which practitioners synchronize the repetition of their breath and head movement with the inner recitation of Allah's name.

Anand Patwardhan is an Indian documentary filmmaker known for his socio-political, human rights-oriented films. Some of his films explore the rise of religious fundamentalism, sectarianism and casteism in India, while others investigate nuclear nationalism and unsustainable development.

Lindokuhle Mandyoli proposes a re-examination of what we understand colonial injustice to be – a fundamentally material injustice. Mandyoli essentially deals with two contending arguments on the debate on justice in South Africa, namely Transformative Constitutionalism and the Constitutional Abolitionists.

This paper is based on Chowdhury's current book project that contemplates the postcolonial trajectories of development and democracy. The focus is a river bridge in Bangladesh which is the country’s largest and most high-profile development project.