Talk:Anjali Nerlekar

By Rutvi Dattani

Anjali Nerlekar is Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Chair, AMESALL (African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures) at Rutgers University, as of October 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests include multilingual Indian modernisms, modern Marathi literature, Indian English literature, Indo-Caribbean literature, world literatures, translation studies, Caribbean and postcolonial Studies, Indian print culture, Indian visual studies and archipelagic studies.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva.

In 2021, she 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 Indian Literature

India and South Asia

1. Nerlekar, A. "The LCD of Language: The Sathottari Poetry of R. K. Joshi and Arun Kolatkar." South Asia: A Journal of South Asian Studies, edited by Laura Brueck, Hans Herder, Charu Gupta, and Shobhna Nijhawan, vol. 43, no. 5, 2020, pp. 943-969.
2. Nerlekar, A. Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture. Speaking Tiger, Delhi, 2017.
3. Nerlekar, A. "The Worlds of Bombay Poetry." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, co-edited with Laetitia Zecchini, vol. 53, no. 1-2, 2017.
4. Nerlekar, A. "The Cartography of the Local in Arun Kolatkar’s Poetry." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 49, no. 5, 2013, pp. 609-623.
5. Nerlekar, A. "The Rough Ground of Translation and Bilingual Writing in Arun Kolatkar's Jejuri." Perspectives, Studies in Translatology, vol. 21, no. 2, 2013, pp. 226-240.
6. Nerlekar, A. "The Unmonumental Chitre." New Quest, vol. 177-178, July-December 2009, pp. 31-33.
7. Nerlekar, A. "Little Magazines, Bilingualism and Bombay Poetry." History of Indian Poetry in English, edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 190-202.
8. Nerlekar, A. "Converting Past Time into Present Space: The Poetry of A. K. Ramanujan." Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English, edited by Smita Agarwal, Rodopi, 2014, pp. 127-150.

Indian Diaspora

1. Nerlekar, A. "The Insular and the Transnational Archipelagoes: The Indo-Caribbean in Samuel Selvon and Harold Sonny Ladoo." Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations, edited by Michelle Stephens and Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2020, pp. 403-422.