Iftikhar Gilani is a journalist based in Ankara, Turkiye. He is the author of the book, “My Days in Prison” (Penguin, 2009) and the Urdu book “Ikkeeswi Sadi ka Bharat aur Musalman: Siyasat aur Samaaj ke Aeenay Mai”
His politics was never abstract; it grew from lived experiences of precarity