Salik Basharat
Salik is a third-year Ph.D. student from Kashmir. Broadly, he studies South Asian experiences, cultures, literatures, languages, aesthetics, thought, and politics. His most recent master's thesis at Vanderbilt places the rhetoric of the Naya (New) Kashmir Manifesto alongside Jawaharlal Nehru's exoticized descriptions of the Kashmir Valley and examines their relation to the aesthetics of the modern Kashmiri State and the imagination of the modern Indian Nation.
Specialization(s)
- Literary/Critical Theory
- 20th & 21st Century Aesthetics and Politics
- Colonial/Post-Colonial South Asian Literatures
- Critical Translation Studies
- Kashmir Studies
- Cultural Studies