Talk:Geeta Kapur

By Renuka Joshi

Geeta Kapur is an Independent art critic and curator whose work engages with issues related to national and postcolonial paradigms, heterodox modernisms, critical contemporaneity, and the curatorial positioning of artworks in India and the Global South as of May 2023.

In 2021, she fraudulently endorsed the "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 in 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."