Vakkom Moulavi Memorial and Research Centre
Memorial Lecture 2021
7.00 PM 31 October 2021
“A comparative understanding of modern majoritarianism”
Memorial Lecture by
MUKUL KESAVAN
Writer and Historian
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Chair
SHAJAHAN MADAMPAT
Writer and Cultural Critic
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MUKUL KESEVAN is well known writer, commentator and historian, who currently teaches in the Department of History and Culture at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. After his higher studies at the University of Delhi and University of Cambridge, Mukul began his academic career at Jamia Millia Islamia. He also taught at St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, served as Writer-in-Residence, University of Kent in Canterbury under the Charles Wallace Fellowship, and Research Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. Mukul’s works include internationally acclaimed Looking Through Glass (Chatto & Windus), Secular Common Sense (Penguin India), Men in White (Penguin), The Ugliness of the Indian Male and Other Propositions (Black Kite), Homeless on Google Earth (The Orient Blackswan), Civil Lines (HarperCollins) etc. Mukul’s columns have appeared in The Telegraph, Cricinfo, Outlook Magazine, Mint, The Times of India, The Hindu, The Guardian, BookForum, The Times Literary Supplement, Wisden Cricket Asia, The Wisden Cricketer etc.
SHAJAHAN MADAMPAT is a writer and cultural critic, writing in Malayalam, English and in Arabic. His writings include God is neither a Khomeini nor a Mohan Bhagawat and numerous essays and articles published in leading journals and newspapers such as Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, Huffington Post, Outlook, Gulf News, Khaleej Times, Bahrain Tribune, Biblio, Mainstream, etc. Shajahan, an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, currently lives and works in Abu Dhabi.
