Shaheen Ahmed

Shaheen Ahmed is currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies from Monash University. She is a film-critic, writer, curator and artist. Her writings have appeared in The Wire.in, Scroll.in, Australian Outlook, Indian Cultural Forum among others. Her research areas include decolonisation, indigeneity, borderlands, visual studies, photography, cultures, gender and cinema.

Memories of Galwan Valley

Recent India-China skirmishes in the Ladakhi valley revive conversation on how borders and their memories are constructed.

Aug 19, 2020

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How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between