The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’.
It has been five years since renowned Delhi University linguistics professor Hany Babu was arrested on 28 July, 2020. He is being held without charge in India’s notorious Taloja Central Jail on the outskirts of Mumbai. Here his former student takes a roll call to remember his name, because “naming is work we do for one another.”
For a snapshot of the authoritarian era to which today’s launch of Unwritten Lives is a response, we don’t have to rewind too far, just to the recent past, to moments that still reside fresh in recent memory.
Iqra Raza is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at University of Houston. Born in Bihar an …
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