I first met Ahmad in Oxford many years ago where he delivered the annual Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture, sponsored by All Souls College. To support a non-discriminatory and inclusive policy was always Ahmad’s credo, though inherently provocative to the state. The overwhelming crises over racism, hunger and plague across the world demands instant answers to the evils of oppression and poverty. To lose him at this juncture, when the promised ‘new world order’ lies in fragments with Black people, Jews, Latinx, Asian-Americans and Muslims marginalised like never before, is to confront a scenario of hate crimes, unleashed ruthlessly in the wake of the toxic election season. The passing of intellectuals often leaves behind a void in a world where we have received so much, so warmly and generously, from those whom we remember for their remarkable lifetime of service to the fields of politics and literature. Our friend and comrade, Aijaz Ahmad, died a few days ago, on March 9.
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