Talk:Meghna Roy

By Renuka Joshi

Meghna Roy is a graduate student at Centre for the study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University as of May 29, 2023. and doctoral research fellow . According to her university profile, her research interest includes psychological anthropology, class, medical anthropology.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government as of October 2022.

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 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."

Publications related to India

Article

1. Roy, Meghna. “Needles, Blood, and Data the Case of COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects.” Economic and Political Weekly, 2022, pp. 13–16.

Book

1. Roy, Meghna. “The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID‐19 Pandemic. By B. K.Rothman, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2021. Pp. 164. $14.00 (Pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐5036‐2881‐6.” Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 45, no. 3, Wiley-Blackwell, Nov. 2022, pp. 707–8, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13580. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.