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Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World
By
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7539-5
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
The Poetry of Gujarat Riots
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Published:April 2015
A report on the poetry of Aqeel Shatir, a Muslim poet in Gujarat, where in 2002 more than a thousand Muslims were killed by Hindu mobs. Shatir writes in Urdu, a language predominantly used by Muslims in India. A few years ago, Shatir was in the news when a critic introducing his book remarked on how the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, elected the prime minister of India in May 2014, had killed not only Muslims but also Urdu.
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