
InFocus: Dr. Rahul Rao and Exploring the Controversy Surrounding Colonial Statues
“I'm trying to understand the depth of emotion, resentment, and feeling that this arouses on the part of both people who think that the statues are racist and doing harm, and the people who think that taking them down is in some way a deep attack on them,” said Dr Rahul Rao when asked about his main aim regarding his recently published book. On 20 March, 2025, Dr Rahul Rao, a Reader in the School of International Relations (IR), published his third book, The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning W...