Nitasha Kaul is a British novelist, political scientist, international relations scholar, poet, economist and artist. She is known for her lectures on political economy, neoliberalism, economic justice and economic violence.
Wiki/Biography
Nitasha Kaul was born on Tuesday, November 30, 1976 in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India (age 47 years 2023). Her zodiac sign is Sagittarius. Soon after her birth, she moved to Delhi with her family.
Nitasha Kaur childhood photos
She received her education at St Thomas’ School in Delhi, India. She later pursued a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Economics from Shri Ram Business School, Delhi, India. In 1997, at the age of 21, she moved to London, England, where she studied for a master’s degree in economics, majoring in public policy, and a joint doctorate in economics and philosophy at the University of Hull, England. She completed her PhD in 2003.
appearance
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family/caste
Nitasha Kaul belongs to the Kashmiri Pandit family of Delhi, India.
Parents and siblings
Nitasha Kaur’s mother is a retired teacher.
husband
According to some sources, Nitasha Kaur is married to Dibyesh Anand. He is an academic and gay rights activist.
Dibyesh Anand
Nitasha Kaur secretly married gay rights activist Dibyesh Anand, who gained popularity for calling himself a gay activist. He has been very vocal about his views on India, such as giving an interview to Al Jazeera about the CAA protests or attending anti-India seminars with his spouse Nitasha. (3/13) pic.twitter.com/rCdNO8uUvL
— D-IntentData (@dintentdata) February 26, 2024
Signature/Autograph
Nitasha Kaur’s signature
Profession
teaching
In 2002, Nitasha Kaul started working as a lecturer and assistant professor in economics at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, where she worked for 4 years before receiving a visiting research scholarship from the research centre. Consortium for Democracy (CSD), London, UK. In 2003, she worked as an Economics Seminar Tutor (2003) at the Department of Economics and International Development, University of Bath, UK, and became an Assistant Professor at the University of Bath in 2004.
Nitasha Kaul and MJ Akbar attend Jaipur Litfest 2011
She is an expert on Bhutanese history, politics and culture and has spent significant time in Bhutan since 2006. In 2010, Nitasha Kaul was appointed as a Permanent Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Royal Thimphu College (Royal Thimphu College). University of Bhutan), Bhutan. She worked in Bhutan for a year.
Nitasha Kaul in Zangtopelri Lhakhang, Bhutan
Nitasha Kaul joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, London as a visiting lecturer from 2012 to 2013 and as an assistant professor from 2014 to 2015. Over the years she has been awarded a number of scholarships, including a visiting scholarship to University College London, UK. From June 2009 to August 2009, Visiting Scholar, Department of Humanities and Political Science, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, Central University of Hyderabad (CUH), Hyderabad, India, January 2010.
Nitasha Kaul (second from left) with students from the London Center for Democracy
In 2015, he started working in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, London, UK, and has served as a full-time permanent lecturer in Politics and International Relations, and in 2015, a full-time permanent Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations. Relations (2017, 2020 full-time permanent associate professor (Reader) majoring in Politics and International Relations.
On 1 January 2023, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) – founded in 1989 as the University of Westminster’s home for politics and international relations – welcomed a new director (+1 woman). Sincerely 🥰 https://t.co/zzlk4VXiE1 pic.twitter.com/FgSdpW5Beo
— Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD (@NitashaKaul) December 31, 2022
On January 1, 2023, she became director of the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the University of Westminster in London.
writer
In 2007, Nitasha Kaul published her first book, “Imagining Alternatives to Economics: Encountering Identity/Difference,” an academic monograph on economics and philosophy.
Nitasha Kaur’s debut novel
In 2009, Nitasha Kaul wrote her first novel, Residue. It became the first novel in English by a Kashmiri woman. After the book was published, it was described by India Today as “an endless narrative about identity neurosis.”
Nitasha Kaur’s debut novel Residue (2009)
Nitasha Kaul has written many books over the years, including November Light: An Anthology of Creative Writing in Bhutan and Future Tense (2020).
Other works
Witnesses to U.S. House Committee
On October 22, 2019, Kaul attended the hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee as an important witness. The theme of this hearing was the human rights issue in Indian-controlled Kashmir after the special status of Kashmir was revoked in India. Kaur spoke about reports by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that revealed violations of human rights and democratic principles in Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir. She also pointed to the recent shutdown of communications services and mass detentions in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Nitasha Kaur testifies at US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee hearing
Kaur said in her testimony,
I am not speaking for India’s interests or Pakistan’s interests here, in fact that is exactly the problem – those who talk about Kashmir’s own interests and Kashmiris’ own rights are the most vulnerable to harm from any quarter. Public politics serves no one. It does not serve Indians and Kashmiris. If Kashmir were a public issue, then Muslims in India would feel the same as Kashmiri Muslims, but they don’t. So this is not a public issue, even though it has been publicized, but it is a problem. ”
Bhutan Special Project
She has conducted important research on Bhutan’s move toward democracy in 2008 and its development in 2018. She launched a project called “Biodemocracy and Resilience in Bhutan” that focuses on public policy. Her research has opened new areas of research and has been published in many international publications.
Nitasha Kaul in Hajong, Bhutan in 2024
In 2021, she published her first article on the geopolitical history of Bhutan in the Journal of Asian Studies and an article on how to portray Bhutan in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
dispute
India Denied Entry and Deported
In February 2024, Nitasha Kaur came to India from the United Kingdom to attend the Karnataka Government’s Constitutional Conference. She was invited by the Karnataka Government to serve as a spokesperson to participate in the two-day “Constitution and National Unity Conference- 2024″. However, when she arrived at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, she was denied entry. According to her, she was not allowed to enter the country because of her democratic and constitutional views. There was no official statement from the central government regarding her deportation. On February 25, 2024, she described the entire incident on Twitter. She revealed that she was being held at the airport without access to basic amenities such as food and water. Her tweet read:
Denied entry to #India for talking about democratic and constitutional values. The #Karnataka (Congress-ruled state) government invited me to attend a meeting as a distinguished representative, but the Center refused me entry. All my documents are valid and valid (UK passport and OCI). I spent 12 hours on a flight from London to Bangalore, spent a few hours in immig where they picked me up without providing any information on the process, and then spent 24 hours in a detention cell (British Airways flight requires I didn’t return until the next day), there was live CCTV, movement was restricted, the area to lie down was narrow, food and water not easily accessible, I made dozens of calls to the airport asking for basic items like pillows and blankets, but They declined the offer, then a 12-hour flight back to London.
A photo shared by Nitasha Kaul on Twitter showing her status during the immigration process
By the evening of February 25, 2024, Nitasha Kaul shared a series of tweets describing her Hallow experience and stating that she would not be allowed to enter the country without prior notification from the central government. While many people supported her on Twitter, she was also trolled by many online, who called her a “Pakistani sympathizer.” Many rumors surfaced on the internet that she married a Pakistani man in the UK and became a jihadist, which she later clarified with a Twitter post, which she wrote:
Regarding all the lies, I am not married to a Pakistani, not a Muslim convert, not a pawn of China, not a puppet of the West, not a Communist, not a Jihadist, not a Pakistan sympathizer, not a terrorist supporter, not anti-India, Not part of a gang. I am what dictators fear – a thinking woman. “
Achievement
- In 2009, she was shortlisted for the 2009 Mann Asian Literary Award for her first novel “Residue”. Her novel is the only debut novel on this list.
Facts/Trivia
- Nitasha Kaul loves traveling and has been to more than 70 countries around the world.
- During her studies, she was honored by Sonia Gandhi for her voluntary heart care awareness work (Project Hriday) in 1993 in collaboration with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
- Nitasha Kaul loves cats and often posts pictures of her and them on social media.
Nitasha Kaur and cat photos
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