OBITUARY: Aijaz Ahmad

This is not an obituary in the formal sense. Nor is it an appreciation of Aijaz Ahmad’s life and work. In the days to come, we will engage with his important and enormously erudite corpus, as we come to terms with the loss of one of the most important and influential Marxist thinkers of our times. The wound is too fresh to be able to take stock of what has been lost. In lieu of that inventory, this is a public expression of private loss that is at once intellectual, political, and deeply personal – but one that I know so many others in their own way also are experiencing.