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Excited to introduce #ARizviFamilyWinter with quirky antics, #midnightfeats and #familysecrets Thanks to @HarperCollinsIN for letting me flex my funny bone.
More here: harpercollins.co.in/blog/ann…
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UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti on children's deaths in Gaza: "Her preexisting conditition was not what caused her death. Children don't die from celiac disease. She died because of starvation as a direct result of the siege"
The Genocide in Gaza and Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Children
One of the most difficult events @SOAS that I have organised in the last 2 years: Powerful interventions by Commissioner Chris Sidoti, Nick Mynard @maynard_nick & Michelle Staggs
youtube.com/watch?v=RLNraZFh…
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These are violent times. Still nothing prepared us for the two classroom horrors. Have been criticised for running down Kabir Singhs & Animals. Restating that my point is about not about portrayal of misogyny but its celebration, not about toxic characters but their glorification
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A kindergarten bombed. We repeat, a kindergarten was bombed in Gaza. Yesterday, on October 30th, the Saftawi area in Western Gaza City, the military occupation bombed a school building. This also impacted many Palestinians tents and homes.
Emergency response needed: chuffed.org/project/113222-t…
Families in the area lost everything yet their faith in God and his decree remain unshakeable. But no human on earth should tolerate this unfathomable level of loss, over and over again.
The Sameer Project is looking to help some of the families affected with your support. We are hoping to get mattresses and blankets for families that lost all of their belongings.
The insanity of families still being bombed when the international media is depicting a “ceasefire” is clear. It is our duty to rise and demand an end to the genocide.
Support our General Fund to help families impacted by the ongoing bombings: chuffed.org/project/113222-t…
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STOP calling it "Indonesia's fires."
Call it what it is: Palm oil companies torching one of Earth's largest carbon reservoirs to clear land for free.
2M hectares gone. And counting.
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Can’t remember the last time I saw BBC refer to areas in Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria as “Israeli-occupied.”
'We came back from hell', say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied frontline city bbc.in/4yPw9hj
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In Maharashtra, lakhs of drought-hit farmers will only get 5,000 rupees for their losses.
The Kumbh Mela will get 35,000 crores.
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We dont shame influencers enough who take paid political campaigns from BJP. There is a lot of hate on 'godi media', but somehow influencers escape this.
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Jamia student leaders Zeeshan and Faizan are finally out of Tihar Jail.
The police tried to crush the Students’ Union movement by jailing its leaders. But the students won their demand.
The leaders are free and Union is Loading.
Jamia’s student democracy has prevailed!
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"Gyanesh Kumar is just a puppet, Modi and Shah are the main puppeteers": TMC MP Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra)
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Almost the entire US media and political establishment wants us to ignore this
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Pakistani music has only flourished without Bollywood and that ban is the best thing that happened because it's not limited to filmi bullshit. Pakistani music is more sophisticated, experimental, genre fluid and rooted in local sensibilities.
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Villagers in Haridwar staged a protest after administration officials arrived at night to seal a room inside a madrasa. Local Muslims objected to the action, demanding that authorities specify the alleged deficiencies and issue a formal notice instead of sealing the room. The villagers said that if the madrasa had violated any rules, the administration should clearly communicate the reasons and follow due process. They also challenged the selective sealing of one room, saying they were prepared to approach the court over the matter.
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The Gateway of India was built in Bombay. The Taj Mahal Palace opened in Bombay. Marine Drive became the Queen’s Necklace in Bombay. Victoria Terminus, the Rajabai Clock Tower and Bombay’s extraordinary Art Deco district emerged from Bombay’s evolution as a global city.
Bombay gave India Dadabhai Naoroji, Pherozeshah Mehta, Homi Bhabha, Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Farokh Engineer, Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and great industrialists from the Tata legacy. It nurtured a world-class financial centre, a textile revolution and the Hindi film industry.
Bombay’s identity has been shaped by the Kolis, Parsis, Gujaratis, Sindhis, Marwaris, Marathi communities and diverse communities from across India. Bombay is a city, a culture and an emotion, built by generations of people who built it and called it home.
The 1995 renaming was a political decision. It cannot make that history disappear, or render the identity of millions who knew it as Bombay any less legitimate.
Call it Mumbai if you wish. But don’t force me to. And don’t reduce the history of a great city to serve a single community or a single political narrative.
I genuinely have a question to all those who still call the city as Bombay and not Mumbai.
It has been 30 years since the city is renamed as Mumbai. And still the non-native speakers insist on calling it Bombay. Some of the native speakers also go by the same name while speaking in Hindi or English. I see that in reels, filmy people conversations, college kids' conversations, and everywhere else too.
I don't really have an issue with whatever you wanna call the city but the insistence of calling it Bombay is like disrespecting the local identity and language and feelings of the original inhabitants. And though Mumbai is a cosmopolitan city, it has its own language, culture, food, identify. The local flavour needs to be RESPECTED.
And don't give me a political argument.... Some of you weren't even born when the politics around it happened. Apart from that, what is the reason?
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Note: There is no country "in the Middle East", Arab or not, that specifically denies women the right to vote or run for office. The countries where citizens don't vote at all are among the closest regional allies of the Israeli state
Israel’s Arab citizens, men and women, are turning out in historic numbers to vote. They can vote, run for office, and serve in the Knesset, rights denied to many Arabs and women across much of the Middle East.
Our critical ally in the fight against terror, Israel, is the only democracy in the region, and today shows it.
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A glacial lake outburst in northern Bhutan has triggered flash flooding, sweeping away a popular hot spring complex and forcing evacuations.
India’s Assam and West Bengal have issued flood alerts.
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So three guys get life imprisonment for killing cows
Meanwhile son of a judge who ran over and killed A HUMAN gets bail in 3 hours
India is the country of Sodom and Gomorrah now
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If you’re curious about what went behind @SuparnaSharma’s story that won the Pulitzer, she very graciously shared details with me in this interview. I am still in awe of the level of hard work and discipline this took. fatimakhan.substack.com/p/ho…
