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Anthropologist | Postdoc | PhD from @Penn | infrastructures, cities, citizenship, CPEC

Sheffield/Lahore
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I'm so excited to share my new OA paper "Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures: Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of infrastructural development in Pakistan" in EPD @SocietyandSpace . 1/n
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Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures: Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of...

This article traces (dis)continuities in colonial logics across disjunctures of decolonisation and democratisation through a large infrastructure project in con...

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All this hospitality that we are so proud of is built on gendered labor. It is so messed up that it's (usually) more acceptable/common for female guests to go & help the host women than for the male hosts to get up & enter their own goddam kitchen.
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What’s that one opinion on desi culture that would have you in this position.
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I'm 34. I have a PhD and a kid. I still have nightmares about missing/failing O and A Level exams. Last night I had a dream about having dreams about missing those exams. What PTSD inducing sorcery is embedded in those exams??!!
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I’m fairly fluent in English but I start struggling when I’m tired. Even after all these years of living abroad. Is ‘too tired to talk in English’ a thing with other non native speakers too?
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There is a literal video of a 10 year old dragging her body on the floor & dying after being raped by Pir Asad Shah who is dozing off on the bed after raping her. He is the son in law of PPP MPA Fayyaz Shah. Nothing will happen to him. F your independence celebrations.
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Recently colorized photo of my grandmother writing her MA thesis in pre Partition Lahore.
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Pervez Hoodbhoy is a turd. Anyone who disagrees is also a turd. Those who platform him are also turds. 600 ppl dead. He decides to invoke every last racial and Islamophobic trope of the fanatic, horny brown man who is desperate to get to Europe so he can access white women.
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Dear Syeds, please stop talking about being syed. Sincerely, It’s castiest. Also no one cares.
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Imran Khan thinks he's the only Pakistani to have lived abroad. Bhai if u were apparently on some kind of constant drugs sex & rock n roll routine in the oh-so-decadent "West" that's on you. Plenty of ppl live abroad & manage to avoid having kids out of wedlock if they want to.
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My Bari Ammi (maternal grandmother) is over 90 years old. I was sitting with her today and she started telling me about the early years of her marriage. She was born and raised in Jallundhar - in a big house with 5-6 rooms. As a pampered younger child she never had to...
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South Asia is producing an entire genre of right wing bs framed in anticolonial language.Hindutva & Islamophobia as radical decolonialism. Schmucks like this labelling anything he disagrees with as white man's agenda. Palestinians deserve better than career misogynists as allies.
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Do not get the infantilisation of Malala by some liberal Pakistanis. She is an adult educated woman, a prominent activist & nobel laureate who takes a stand on every major global issue. Her silence on the current crisis in Palestine is meaningful. Why shouldn't it be called out?
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I think using “bloody” as a noun instead of an adjective e.g “You bloody!” is the single most important linguistic contribution of South Asian uncles.
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An excellent example of how a) vocab of decolonisation/ indigeneity/social justice is used in service of right wing majoritarian politics in postcolonial states & b) UC/upper class desis unproblematically appropriate POC/migrant subject position in elite academic spaces abroad.
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What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger! At 22 years of age, as the first Indian Female President of the Oxford University Students Union, my historic election victory rapidly transformed into a distressing nightmare of bullying, harassment, & threats. It was declared that…
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Women should be financially compensated for living in Pakistan.
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Working on visa apps this am....
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I cannot find the words to capture the utter zalaalat of the Pakistani state. Not only is it deporting 4 million Afghan refugees - many of whom have lived here their whole lives - they ARE TAKING THEIR MONEY AND ANIMALS at the border. Kuch tou khuda ka khauf ker lou khanzeerou!
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Desi men need to stop posting shit like "Optimize your learning: Read 3 books per week". Aslam, get off the couch and change a diaper, make dinner, pull your weight around the house. Aida tu optimizer.
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In the documentary "India's Daughter" one of the Delhi gang rapists said the victim shouldn't have been out late & that they wanted to teach her a lesson. Our CCPO has the same thought process as a gang rapist. Thank you @ImranKhanPTI . #RemoveCCPOLahore
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Most people probably won't know that Farhad Humayun taught O level art for a year in 2001-2. I was in 9th grade at that time and I remember him as a quiet guy who mostly hung out by himself or with the computing teacher - one of the few male teachers in the all girls school.
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So I know there is a lot going on in the world right now, but I'm a dr now. My mom says, "hun tu o nikkay nikkay card chapwa la takkay lokaan nu pata lagay" ❤️ 😃
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My dissertation, desperately trying to create and fill a gap in the literature.
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"Oye tum PhD ker bhi lou ab! Bachpan sey sun rahay hain Fatima PhD kerahi hai!" - Morning motivation by my sister.
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... what struck me most about this story was how after all these years she is still somewhat traumatized by the distress of the early years of her marriage. Lately, I have been thinking about how the practice of patrilocality is so inherently misogynistic,so inherently violent...
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Brown people interrupting and & talking back to the white man while he's lecturing them about civil rights... oooh the horror... Ambassador saab will need a therapist to process this trauma...
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young human rights activists disrupt the german ambassadors speech during the Asma Jahangir Conference for their role in the genocide in Gaza
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married couple should live on a separate floor/separate unit within the same house b/c its not fair to the woman - the structure of patrilocality is inherently misogynistic & subjects women to routine humiliations.
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... none of this registers as violence. Because when you sign a nikhanamma you are expected to surrender a part of your dignity and self respect. And even today you are the bad guy if you suggest that there needs to be some degree of separation - at the very least the...
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... and so COMPLETELY normalized in this part of the world. It is not an issue of mean individuals. The issue is the practice in itself that is based on the acquisition of women who are expected to move into someone else's house and fit into the existing family...
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American academia is bizzare. My discipline is bizzare. You throw a rock in an anthro department & you’ll hit ten people trying to ‘decolonize’ something through their research. Look through the publications in anthro journals, papers presented at conferences....
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...I am talking about the everyday, ordinary acts of violence and humiliation that don't even register as violence. For example - and these are actual things that have happened to people I know - needing the MIL's permission before going out; MIL throwing a fit because...
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I don't understand why it's so hard for a significant chunk of liberal Indian diaspora to understand that Pakistanis struggle for space to write/represent Pk. Turn down invites to appropriate that space.
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... like a single piece of furniture that you acquire and make it fit with the rest of the room instead of altering the room to fit with the new furniture. And the violence I am talking about is not the spectacular violence of beatings & threats which most people would condemn...
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Do not come to Lahore if you can help it. Do not have children here. Do not bring pre existing children. We are all slowly dying here. Thank you.
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... the bahu slept in; MIL expecting the bahu to accompany her on all/most social visits; a bahu needing her MIL's permission before buying a piece of furniture with her own money for her own room; MIL's refusing to let bahu hire help; curfews; minor and major taunts, insults...
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Kalki's character, Faiza is also Muslim. But only in name. I genuinely think Zoya Akhtar thinks only two types of Indian Muslims exist: the 'normal' ones like herself who are non-practising/atheist/Muslim in name only, & the polygamous, triple talaq types.
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@abz191919 So when you go to someone's house for dinner you also make them take you to their office right after that so you can help them earn money to pay for the dinner? Matlab takkay ka dimagh use nai kerna munh kholnay sey pehlay
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Making my way through @whbutt 's wonderful ethnography on waste work in Lahore. Must read for anyone interested in class and caste dynamics in Pakistan and South Asia. Most work on Pk doesn't directly address caste, following popular narratives that caste is not very imp >>
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5 boys from Karachi have assembled all 5 of their brain cells to organize #MardMarch to explain how they are sons of Adam and don't want to kill lizards. Meanwhile Pakistan is the 6th most dangerous country in the world for women. But meh rights of them chipkli killers.
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@Habibjan151Jan I am an Aurat March woman and believe in Mera Jism Meri Marzi. They have always stood against pedophilia and rape. Na unka handle dekhna hai, na manifesto perhna hai, bus har jaga "whereee is Aurat march" cheekhna shuru kerdia kero...
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...where she now lived with a really mean mother in law and had to take on the bulk of domestic work. "You know those storerooms where you stored paittian [huge steel storage containers]... I would go in there and cry." Her sisters already lived in areas that would become...
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This guy is the Pakistani version of Kangana Ranaut.
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ALLAH PAK KA SHUKAR Hum inmay say nahi 🤲 #ProudPakistani #VeryProudMuslim
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...take on much domestic labor. Things changed when she was married at a young age and moved to a village near Nankana Sahib (which would go on to become part of Pakistan). Used to living in comfort in a city, she felt utterly miserable in her new home...
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So it looks like it is finally coming to an end. I defend tomorrow. My diss is titled "Un/Making the City: Politics of Urban Infrastructural Construction in Pakistan". It's online at 2 pm EDT, April 9. 11 pm Pakistan time. Let me know if you'd like you attend.
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... neighborhood had been razed and new structures built on the land. But Bari Ammi never saw her house after she got married. Now all her siblings her dead, "main akeli hi reh gai hun" she said with a chuckle...
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DG ISPR: State has no links with terrorists. Also DG ISPR: All citizens,including those from proscribed terrorist orgs can run for office 👍
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Normalize footnotes instead of endnotes! It's so annoying to keep scrolling or flipping to the end of the book... grhhhhh
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Please don't share anything Farh*t H*shmi says. The woman thinks women in Islam are sex slaves of their husbands. Nothing good can come out of that person. No point in platforming anything she says even if it is to criticize it.
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... she then circled back to her parents in law. Her father in law was a doctor and was always nice to her, which was a relief since her mother in law wasn't...
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Pakistani women getting Nobel prizes, Oscars, discovering gravitational waves - worst time to be a mullah in the country.
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... part of Pakistan at Partition. But her brother had to move from Jallundhar with his parents at Partition. He went back a few times in the following years and reported back that their house was still standing, even though other houses in the...
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I only know of one dep chair (Berkeley) who has made a statement in solidarity with Palestinians. Deafening silence from all other departments, academic organizations. What kind of a discipline is this?!!
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"So how does your husband manage when you are away?" "hunhh?" "Like what does he do abt food?" "Err he cooks...." It is equal parts intriguing & infuriating how grown ass men able to feed themselves is still considered a novelty. Matlab it's 2018 aunty! And he is 30 years old!
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Thinking about how much of women's energies are spent pre-empting, managing, and diffusing male anger. Start's with mothers trying to shield kids from "abu ka ghussa", to kids growing up to protect their mom from their father...
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Pakistanis operate in two modes exclusively: 1. Pk is lumber 1 country for wimmenzz! Why you need Aurat March hunh?!! 2. Hang rapists publicly and burn them and eat their entrails.
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Kashmiri scholars & allies have clarified multiple times that it’s NOT abt lineage. So when ppl continue to misrepresent the issues raised its clearly an intentional attempt at supporting status quo in academia. Our research practices & professional solidarities cannot be >>
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As a brown girl I always wanted to find true love through my bangles getting caught on his kurta at a wedding. That I met him at an academic conference instead is a constant source of shame.
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If you cannot condemn a murder without commenting on the victim's character then you are part of honor killing culture. #QandeelBaloch
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Every Sunni in this country has witnessed/participated in some form of overt or micro aggression against religious minorities. We just don’t want to acknowledge it. Gross to see sunnis trying to invalidate experiences of others with ‘we have shia friends’ stories.
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Every Ahmadi in this country has a story. Every Shia in this country has a story. Every Christian in this country has a story. Every Hindu in this country has a story. Every Sikh in this country has a story. Every Parsi in this country has a story - you all just refuse to listen.
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This gentleman is trying to explain to three PhDs how there is no Pakistani woman qualified to be on the Advisory Council. He’s also citing the lack of female prize winning economists in the world as evidence. That’s enough Twitter for today. IBA please come & collect your human.
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@pagalpanchi @akkhan81 @nha3383 @fatimatassadiq For starters look at the wikipedia page of noble prize winning economists.
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Y'all remember that article I keep talking about?! It just got published OA at @PoliticalLegal "Producing dispossessed and humanitarian subjects: Land acquisition and compensation policies in Lahore, Pakistan" 🧵
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Stage of the pandemic in Lahore: “Mujhe shayad corona hou kay Theek bhi hougaya hai.”
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This clip perfectly encapsulates rape culture. The ease & entitlement with which a man grabs a woman’s butt in public. He knows the cameras are rolling. He knows people are watching. It’s chilling. What kind of a sick animal is this man?! #SuhelSeth #MeToo
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When Suhel Seth has no shame in touching the back of a woman on public platform, Can you imagine what he would do if there's no around.(2018) #MeToo
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To quote a friend this is what real power in academia looks like... the entitled rage & aggression at being challenged. Her tweets actually clarify that the Kashmiri patients, the very subject of her research, did NOT know of her family connections to RAW. >>
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Do first generation immigrants/expats ever stop feeling lonely? Asking for a friend.
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... projects that are funded in anthropology. There is colonialism in everything... films, food, architecture...Everything is colonial except actual living breathing colonialism that is happening today.
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Indian right wing right now.
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@netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו
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🇺🇸🇦🇱🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇦🇧🇷🇧🇬🇨🇦🇨🇴🇨🇾🇨🇿🇬🇪🇩🇪🇬🇹🇭🇳🇭🇺🇮🇹🇱🇹🇲🇩🇳🇱🇲🇰🇵🇾🇸🇮🇺🇦🇺🇾 Thank you for resolutely standing with 🇮🇱 and supporting our right to self defense against terrorist attacks.
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I picked up the mic and put it back in its holders. The rest of the speech went smoothly. I didn't win anything but I came away feeling very satisfied. I haven't really listened to any of his music. So I remember him by that simple kind gesture. And for telling me
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Everyone please take out a minute of your life to report this account. This terrorist sympathizer uses his TV show & twitter account to call for violence, beheading and burning of ppl accused of blasphemy (predominantly religious minorities).
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Watch this and then tag me … the real picture…
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🇺🇸 : Anthropology?! That's so interesting. 🇵🇰: Beta fanance perhna chahiye tha!
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Diyat laws need to be reformed. They ensure that rich people can kill whoever they want and get away with it by throwing money at the victim's family.
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Pakistanis telling Kashmiris how they should read films where part of the premise is settler colonialism of Kashmir is not a good look .
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Imagine you are at a wedding. Everyone is having fun. The bride or grooms sister starts dancing. A man gets up and starts yelling ‘hayeee tawaiffff’. My God!! Also when will syeds stop talking about being Syed?!!
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I looked up wildly towards the row where my classmates and teachers were sitting... In the mildly panic induced haze I saw Sir Farhad. He was chuckling and gave me a thumbs up. For some reason that simple gesture cut through the panic and I laughed along with everyone else as
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Not to mention his nauseating classism (h/t @NidaKirmani ) . Elite brown ppl graft racialised tropes of the horny/rapist brown/black men onto working class brown class men who are a threat to elite brown/white women.
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that I pronounce my w's as v's and showing me how to fix it.
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@NidaKirmani Some of the replies are unbelievable. No one is denying that Pk is an oppressive & conservative place. Some ppl are sexually frustrated. They do have racialised fantasies about white women. That does NOT mean that massive illegal migration is b/c mens be horny. Koi akal Ker Lou!
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If you still can't understand this - try this thought experiment: would a pakistani be asked to write abt a specifically Indian pop cultural phenomenon?
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Ejaz Haider right now:"What is this world coming to when mediocre men like me can't even attack a woman far more educated & qualified than me.Main koi jahil hun?!Angrezi main tweet kia tha! Matlab Chomsky aur Arendt utha kay munh pay mar nay lag gai log.Jaan lou ga kia bachay ki"
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I should have added a trigger warning to this post. I am so sorry!
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Love how mediocre men like Ejaz Haider have no qualms launching ignorant, public attacks on women more qualified than them but when forced to beat a retreat start referring to "named someone". Forget apology, they don't even have the decency to name her in the 'retraction'
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in the spirit of my exchange last night with @EmadAnsariH and in keeping with what my dear friend @mosharrafzaidi separately said to me, i have deleted the tweet which named someone without prejudice to the substance of what i argued. i shall say no more on the subject.
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My amazing friends at Penn are putting together a conference titled "Placing Pakistan: Space, Time, and the Everyday". Check out the cfp. #anthrotwitter #SouthAsianStudies
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3 years
“Haye Allah itnay saaray liberals aagai”
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‘Bachay kay bina aurat ki koi ehmiyat nai. Uski saari taalem, daulat zaaya hai’ - desi Aunty referring to a childless couple. It was one of those moments when the sheer cruelty of this society takes your breath away.
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So this really blew up. That's why I just wanted to clarify that the issue is not that of mean/nice individuals. You can have the best in laws and patrilocality is still problematic. That's b/c all adults have the right to live their life on their own terms, run their home in...
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8 years
Sajid Khan says won't work with Pk artistes.Not sure how Fawad Khan's career will survive the disappointment of not being in Humshakals 2
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Can't believe LUMS would platform people like him! Was there no pushback by anyone? That he cannot stand up for Palestinian women without shitting on abortion and equal pay should tell you how much he cares about women. Yuck!!
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@khurrambargatt @PIDEpk @nadeemkhurshid So basically you are a man who is threatened by the fact that there is an increasing number of qualified women in your field - many with degrees from institutes you could never into.
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That year I was one of the two students selected to participate in an inter school declamation contest. He helped out the main coach (who was Mariam Mufti :) ) in training us a little.
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And he accompanied us to the contest. I was shit scared - like throwing up the night before terrified. When I got up on stage and started the speech my mic slipped out of it thingie and fell on to the podium with a thud. The audience erupted in laughter.
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Unless everyone of these women also stood up for the freedom of French Muslim women to wear the niqab, this is nothing but hypocrisy.
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French female artists including @JulietteBinoche cutting their hair in solidarity with #IranProtests #MahsaAmini
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Loved this film growing up. We didn’t have satellite TV but living in Lahore had its perks. The TV antenna usually caught Doordarshan. The latter aired this film every 15th August or on other holidays.
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MR INDIA : released today in 1987 Shekhar Kapur’s film written by Salim-Javed; featuring Sridevi, Anil Kapoor in title role, Amrish Puri as Mogambo & Satish Kaushik as Calender. @shekharkapur @AnilKapoor
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Instinctively distrust desis who move to the US and switch to toilet paper and the Fahrenheit scale.
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But I should be writing.
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@NidaKirmani It's like saying many ppl in Pk want to drink but can't because it's illegal (this is a fact). That is why they get on boats and trawlers to go to Europe so they can drink and that's a key reason for illegal migration (this is NOT a fact).
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Just finished reading @tariqlrahman 's article, 'Landscapes of rizq: Mediating worldly and otherworldly in Lahore's speculative real estate market'. Essential reading for anyone interested in the heterogenous ways in which land is financialized...
Economic Anthropology | SEA Journal | Wiley Online Library

The city of Lahore, Pakistan, has expanded by 20% in the past twenty years alone. Lahore's exponential growth is fueled by a speculative real estate market that incentivizes quick trades of plots of...

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Translation: "Ma boys explained things to me so I won't disagree with them. But I still won't apologize for spewing bs about a highly educated woman because my Gawd these wimmins."
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in the spirit of my exchange last night with @EmadAnsariH and in keeping with what my dear friend @mosharrafzaidi separately said to me, i have deleted the tweet which named someone without prejudice to the substance of what i argued. i shall say no more on the subject.
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@NidaKirmani He says poor men board doomed boats like the one that just sank because they are sexually frustrated in Pakistan and want to reach Europe to get some.
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Haye Rabba mujhe bhi thrilled-to-share-my-article wali tweet kernay ka mauqa dey dey!
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Upcoming apology from Razi Ahmed: "Peasants! You continue to misread our dark humor and anguish. I was only angry about the state of unemployment in the country."
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@NidaKirmani In case you thought that Silicon CEOs are Indian be/c India has a great public education system that produces and experts highly qualified ppl you were wrong!! That Sundar Pichai drinks & his wife doesn't wear hijab. That's why he's Google CEO.
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