Vakkom Moulavi Memorial and Research Centre (VMMRC) is organizing a Special Lecture and Discussion on “Afghanistan: Geopolitics of Impasse” in association with the Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR). The Web-Lecture—scheduled to be held at 7.00 PM (IST) on Saturday, 28 August 2021—will be delivered by Dr. KB Usha Associate Professor at the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Dr Usha is the author of A Wounded Afghanistan: Communism, Fundamentalism and Democracy and several articles on Afghanistan, besides her contributions in Russian and Central Asian Studies.
The Session will be chaired by Shajahan Madampat, a writer and commentator in The Hindu, Huffington Post, Outlook, Gulf News, Khaleej Times and Bahrain Tribune. Shajahan is the author of God Is Neither A Khomeini Nor A Mohan Bhagwat
