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Supratim Halder

Supratim is currently an undergraduate student at St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata. He has taken part in several conferences organised by the Consulate of the United States of America at Kolkata, and he belonged to the student delegation of the India-China Youth Dialogue organised by the Confederation of Youth Leaders in New Delhi. He has written regularly on Indian politics, political theory and international relations.

Articles

Beyond Secularism. Sharjeel Imam and the Political Imaginations of Indian Muslims

Sharjeel Imam has spent nearly six years in prison without a trial, and his interview with The Quint drew a divided response. Supratim Halder reads Imam’s thinking as a distinct political philosophy rooted in Islamic modernism. He credits the call for proportional representation and faults Imam for treating partition politics as a quarrel between Congress and the League, and for imagining Muslims as a single community.