Jayakumar Sai Deepak | |
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_(cropped).png) Deepak in 2017 | |
| Born | 1985 (age 39–40) Chennai, India |
| Education | Mechanical engineering Law |
| Alma mater | Anna University, IIT Kharagpur |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, writer, columnist |
| Notable work | India that is Bharat (2021) India, Bharat and Pakistan (2022) |
| Website | jsaideepak |
Jayakumar Sai Deepak (born 1985) is an Indian Hindutva[1] activist, lawyer, columnist and author.[2] As a counsel, he practices before the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi.[3][4] In 2024, along with 70 other advocates, he was designated as Senior Advocate by Delhi High Court.[5]
He writes columns for The Indian Express and The Open Magazine. He has authored two books about decoloniality in relation to India: India That Is Bharat (2021) and India, Bharat and Pakistan (2022) with two mores books to come covering the era of partition.[not verified in body]
- ^ Hindutva
- Jacobsen, Knut A. (2023). "International Networks Supporting Hindutva". In Chopra, Rohit (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India. Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge. p. 222. doi:10.4324/9781003278436. ISBN 978-1-003-27843-6.
Hindutva ideologues, like J. Sai Deepak, have also found mainstream English-language publishers like Bloomsbury India and Penguin Books India much more amenable to publishing their work, which more often than not substitutes crudely nationalist historical and social perspectives for scholarly quality
- Hew, Wai Weng; Chan, Nicholas (2024). "Idealized Past, Exclusivist Present: Right-wing Appropriation of the Decolonial Rhetoric in Malaysia". Critical Asian Studies. 56 (4): 625–651. doi:10.1080/14672715.2024.2400219. ISSN 1467-2715.
Walter Mignolo, had to apologize on Facebook after he endorsed a book written by Sai Deepak, a Hindu supremacist who used decolonial frameworks to legitimize problematic Hindutva ideas.
- Hull, George (4 May 2023). "Varieties of intellectual decolonisation: an introduction". Social Dynamics. 49 (2): 185–195. doi:10.1080/02533952.2023.2243077. ISSN 0253-3952.
Sai Deepak – who is, like Ram Swarup, a prominent voice in the Hindutva current of thought and political activism
- Jacobsen, Knut A. (2023). "International Networks Supporting Hindutva". In Chopra, Rohit (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India. Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge. p. 222. doi:10.4324/9781003278436. ISBN 978-1-003-27843-6.
- ^ Kunnummal, Ashraf (2023-08-22). "Islamic Liberation Theology and Decolonial Studies: The Case of Hindutva Extractivism". Religions. 14 (9). MDPI AG: 1080. doi:10.3390/rel14091080. ISSN 2077-1444.
Of the Hindutva propagandists who deploy decolonial studies, J. Sai Deepak is the only one who has written substantively on it.
- ^ "Lord Ayyappa at Sabarimala too has rights under Article 21, SC told". Indo-Asian News Service. 26 July 2018. ProQuest 2076261680.
- ^ "Sabarimala case: Deity living person, has right to privacy, women devotees to SC". Indian Express. Mumbai. 27 July 2018. ProQuest 2076507987.
- ^ "J. Sai Deepak Among 71 Advocates Designated Senior Advocate By Delhi High Court, Supreme Court Conferrs Designation On Newly Appointed ASG". Verdictum. 2024-11-30. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
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