
My name is Ateerah Ahmed. I am pursuing a Master's degree in English, at Jamia Millia Islamia University. My interest lies at the intersection of literature and power in quotidian life and how truth is subsequently produced, regulated, and debated. In my writings, I investigate the interplay between culture and politics, tracing how subaltern stories, images, and ideas infiltrate the dominant discursive order and, conversely, move us to produce narratives of resistance. "The horror! The horror!", of contemporary life has, in the meantime, pushed me to campaign for cats as the only plausible presidential candidates.
A critical misunderstanding of urban informality is the belief that it exists as an entity external to the formal economy. The popular discourse aroun...
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