Talk:Akshaya Tankha

By Sachi Anjunkar

Akshaya Tankha is Malathy Singh Post-Doctoral Fellow at the MacMillan Center, Yale University, as of November 2022. His research explores the art and visual culture of contemporary South Asia. In May 2022, he organized an online conference on "The Art of the Borderland Across South and Southeast Asia",

As per his bio, he has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government in the context of of the BJP Government.

In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

1. Tankha, Akshaya, and Rahaab Allana. “Photographs of the Aftermath, 1857.” India International Centre Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 8–24. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23006042.
2. Tankha, Akshaya, and Rahaab Allana. “A Parallel Register of Memory.” India International Centre Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 2–7. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23006041.
3. Tankha, Akshaya. “Frame(s) of Reference.” India International Centre Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2, 2009, pp. 118–31. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23006386.
4. Tankha, Akshaya. "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization By Sanjukta Sunderason." _The Journal of Asian Studies_, vol. 81, 2022, pp. 615-616. Stanford University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911822000912.