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Mohammad Irfan and the worker-intellectual that we still refuse to recognise
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The Indian Express
Yet, what struck the media, among the many stories of courage of the Cockroach Janta Party-led student protest, was the “unthinkable” intellect of Mohammad Irfan.
Despite claiming to have no social media accounts, Irfan is a social media sensation.
Yet, the broader attitudes that could place Mohammad Irfan in a normative social order are missing.
Mohammad Irfan breaches these walls, moving between labour and knowledge.
Like Irfan, he defied the boundaries between elite and subaltern, high and low class, labour and intellect, and head and hand.