Writing to heal, share, make meaning of the stories of our life.
New dates announced for the Ochre Sky
#Memoir
workshop with
@natashabadhwar
and Raju
For more information and registration, apply here:
"We will react to hate with love.
When they threaten to hit us, we will hold the tricolour flag. If they shoot us, we will embrace the Constitution.
If they jail us, we will walk in singing Saare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara."
#StandWithUmarKhalid
Its friday in
#Gurugram
again.
#Namaz
being offered at Akshay Yadav’s open garage in the automobile market in Sector 12.
Its a small start, may it lead to a show of solidarity between people that defeats forces of hate.
Natasha Narwal's father, Mahavir Narwal, has died without being able to meet his daughter.
"There is nothing to fear about being in jail." he had said about his daughter's wrongful arrest. "My daughter will cope with positivity and come back stronger."
Ahmed Geelani and Ravindra Kumar Mishra.
“When I go for namaaz, I leave my shop under Pandit-ji's care. If you want a solution for today's problems, come and meet us.”
Friendship is beyond cast, creed, religion, race and this story sets that in stone.
#UmarKhalid
is fearless and speaks with calm and eloquence. He addresses questions of land, labour, caste, adivasis, gender and communalism. He is a leader they fear.
#StandWithUmarKhalid
A
#parenting
lesson is from a father whose daughter has completed 6 months in jail, framed under UAPA.
His voice may break as he speaks of raising
#NatashaNarwal
as a single parent, but Mahavir Narwal's determination and pride is steady.
@harsh_mander
This man is in ICU today. A father, a teacher, a patriot - most of all a man who inspires with his courage and love.
Imprisoned on false charges, his daughter
#NatashaNarwal
continues to speak up for and demand the rights India's constitution guarantees.
Gulfisha Fatima is an example of courage and bravery. She has been unjustly charged and incarcerated without proof or investigation.
Break you silence. Speak up for her.
#freegul
#freeallpoliticalprisoners
Father
#StanSwamy
, who prefers to bear his pain quietly, is deeply unwell in Taloja Jail.
The 84yo priest & lifelong human rights worker has been incarcerated without trial and bail. He needs our support urgently.
#SaveStanSwamy
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
One of the most under-rated life decisions - one that we are least trained and supported to do - is leaving.
Quitting.
Jobs, friendships, relationships, homes, cities … dreams that need to be abandoned.
Leaving is living. It’s a positive choice. Even if it hurts like death.
India shall stand united
Mohd. Adeeb and Altaf Ahmad along with members of the Gurgaon Nagrik Ekta Manch being welcomed by members of the Gurudwara Committee, as they arrive to wish Sikhs on
#Gurpurab
#HarshMander
is an oasis of calm and gentleness, even as he is a man with an unbending resolve to speak truth to power.
He works tirelessly on the ground, reaching out to victims and to those in need, and is relentless in his efforts to make those who are in power accountable.
“I don't see any hope. The Parliament is just hollow symbolism and nothing else.
Where do we go from here?”
#WATCH
Heart-felt, fiery speech by
@manojkjhadu
, Rajya Sabha MP. A wake-up call for all of us.
Is today a good time for this short refresher on the infamous “Gujarat Model”?
“You need to understand the Gujarat model to make sense of what is happening in India today,” explains
@harsh_mander
Beaten, tortured, humiliated and traumatised for life:
How 124 Muslim men are suffering the consequences of unchecked
#islamophobia
, false charges and a judicial system that failed them for 20 years.
@Article14live
The story of the hounding of
@zoo_bear
also shines a light on the power of idealism, inspiration and solidarity.
“Probably because of the threats, I feel I must work more to debunk misinformation. There are threats to my life…I want to keep working.”
Let this video of inter-faith solidarity stay forever in your heart.
Today on
#Gurpurab
, a Muslim and a Sikh offer respects in a
#Gurudwara
in
#Gurgaon
Gurudwara committee has invite Muslims to offer Friday
#Namaz
after they were threatened elsewhere.
“People would call for oxygen. Despite being an MP, we could not arrange it. Of a 100 phone calls in distress, we had a success rate of 2 or 3.
The people that have died have left behind a living document of our failure”
Searing words by
@manojkjhadu
India isn’t having a picnic. But our drains aren’t choked with bodies, hospitals aren’t out of beds, nor crematoriums & graveyards out of wood or space..
Too good to be true?
Bring data if you disagree. Unless you think you’re god
My
#NationalInterest
He ridiculed and abused media, lied on camera, had no basic decency, was mean to everyone, faked popularity, now he wants SC to rescue him and media to support him! What a bully...!!!Concede and go now, Mr Trump.
Jokes about a 25-year-old song &
#Amit
Shah in 9-month-old video, a law that does not exist & another wrongly applied are basis of
#UP
police arrest warrant against comic Munawar Faruqui, now in an MP jail for 18 days
@saurabhsherry
&
@kunalpurohit
report
Rahul Kanwal practices journalism that telling his interviewee that there will be no
#NRC
because the PM clarified about it in one speech.
Interviewee calls out both the "journalist" and the prime minister
"Every week we see the same set of people disrupt
#GurugramNamaz
Why can't the police act in time and keep them in preventive detention? The state is in collusion to deliberately make Muslims feel unprotected and insecure..."
Prof.
@Apoorvanand__
#Thread
🧵
The arrest of
#Zubair
is a case study of constitutional violations and factual and legal mala fides being practised by a vindictive state against one man determined to be on the side of
facts,
truth,
science.
1/13
#WATCH
this chartered accountant do the math.
“I get your hate, I get your venom, but why would you want to ruin yourself in the process of wanting to hurt the other...” he asks.
#CAA_NRC_Protest
3 steps to Adulting:
1) Learn to say No
2) Learn how to say No
3) Learn to take the blow when people are offended that you said No, however nicely you may have said No
A
#ShaheenBagh
protestor's baby has died from exposure to cold.
Last year Zabeda and Anar Husain's infant son died in her arms as they stood in a day long queue to get their papers checked for
#NRC
in Assam.
This is the human cost of flawed govt. policies
“UP may not be governed by laws but there are laws that protect the people of India…”
@priyankagandhi
takes on UP police attempting to arrest her without a warrant.
There are some rare, precious people whose presence teaches us so much about being human.
#KamalKhan
brought dignity and gravitas to TV reporting. He remained steadfast in his commitment to journalism despite mounting pressures and never compromised on being good and kind.
#RIP
#EXCLUSIVE
“If people can see their own loved ones in place of the person in the photograph, my work is done. I see myself as the connection between my subjects and the viewer.”
#DanishSiddique
speaking to media students at MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
On April 25, one Syeda Khatun, alias Soni (24), was allegedly abducted by Birendra Kumar and his aides from Etwa in Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharthnagar, when she had gone to the fields around her home during Ramzan Sehri. The accused is sending these pictures to the family.
#Thread
#ArundhatiRoy
cuts through the clutter of disinformation.
“The massacre in NE Delhi was designed by the state to crush the anti-CAA protests.
The NRC is not a refugee management law. It was a refugee manufacturing law.”
Muslims are being marginalised in 3 systematic ways: 1. Through laws on issues like triple talaq, cow slaughter, love jihad 2. Targetted violence in public spaces 3. Using the media to criminalise Muslims
@Apoorvanand__
says it like it is.
Why are no efforts visible on the ground,
@ArvindKejriwal
Volunteers are on the ground, we are trying to reach every effected colony and street. Where is the govt.?
We can't see you... neither can the victims.
We r putting best efforts. I am personally trying to ensure that relief reaches each person in need. Our aim is to bring their life back on track. We want people to return to their homes and be welcome by their neighbours.
We are all
Umar Khalid
Safoora Zargar
Khalid Saifi
Ishrat Jahan
Meeran Haider
Asif Iqbal Tanha
Shadab Ahmed
Natasha Narwal
Devangana Kalita
Tasleem Ahmed
Saleem Malik
Mohd Saleem Khan
Athar Khan
Tahir Hussain
Mohammad Parvez Ahmed
Mohammad Ilyas
Sharjeel
@karwanemohabbat
Don't underestimate the power of leaving. Of going away.
There is a reason the world is so large, life so long, relationships so complicated and often toxic.
We are meant to get up and leave. Find life again.
The empath and lover,
@surekha
One who was wounded, yet determined to heal.
"She gave me a new life," a young friend writes to me.
I am collecting your love notes and memories for Surekha's beloved child, V and husband, S.
Send them here. Let everyone know how magical she is.
"What can we do," says a man standing in an endless queue for his first meal of the day. "I don't know how to steal and there is just no work."
A heart-breaking, sobering look at the hunger crisis in the city. A call for solidarity from
@karwanemohabbat
#Watch
A reporter is beaten up by a mob of 50 for reporting on Covid.
A retired IAS officer is harassed with FIRs against him.
Citizens victimised by the state.
“Why do they keep filing FIRs but never arrest me?"
@suryapsingh_IAS
asks
#YogiAdityanath
Witness the courage and joy of
@KSaifi
and
@UmarKhalidJNU
as they appear in court ...and be inspired.
hum ladenge, saathi
udaas mausam ke khilaaf
hum ladenge, saathi
ghulaam ichhaon ke liye
we will fight, comrade, to dispel unhappy times...
"It is difficult to find a therapist who understands that depression is political. That I am depressed because the world is patriarchal, casteist, racist and cruel."
Brilliant, insightful personal essay by
@sravanthid
PM
#Modi
did not apologize to the farmers.He apologized to the Ambanis, Adanis and the corporates saying:
‘Please forgive us. We failed to implement the laws you wanted because the
#farmers
ruined our game'
Ashok Dhawale
President, All India Kisan Sabha
"We are not sad or ashamed of the time we have to spend in jail," said
#UmarKhalid
.
"When criminals are in power, those who oppose them will find themselves in jail."
A gentle reminder of the importance of being
@UmarKhalidJNU
Govt Source says Modi has chosen national interest over personal interest and party interest by repealing the three farm laws, points out how aim is to not anti-national elements take advantage of the situation who want to create fissures between communities
In case you have been worrying about lagging behind your peers and being unable to keep up with expectations… consider the possibility that you are actually ahead of the curve. You have rejected milestones that have no meaning for you.
No one else will be able to tell you this.