Talk:Ambar Basu

By Rutvi Dattani

Ambar Basu is Department Chair and Professor, Department of Communication at University of South Florida, as of November 2022. According to his university profile, his research and teaching focuses on material and discursive dimensions of inequity and in-access in the context of global capital formations.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar 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. Basu, A., & Mukherjee, P. India’s COVID vaccine gestures: From maitri to coloniality. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 2022. 19(2). 134-139, doi: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2064529