dil phir tavāf-e-ku-e-malāmat ko jaae hai pindār kā sanam-kada vīrāñ kiye hue – Ghalib

The violence is always initiated by the oppressor.

There's too much grief, dearest.

Since everyone is engaging in discourse on the Indian Constitution, this article by Pritam Singh is a great read.

In The Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone argues that male culture was built on women's emotional labour, and that men, unable to take love seriously, still can't do without it. Culture is structured by sexual polarity while love remains male culture's weak spot.

That's Kashmir Lit. And it was a poem, not an article. My other essay is published somewhere else. I'd rather not name the media platform, you can find it anyway.

Bring back the Kashmiri Pandits. I haven't been able to go to Kashmir since 2010, mind you, when I was only 4 and on a "trip" to my homeland. Why are these people there? Why? And the military occupation is another thing that tightens the knots of our exile.

kāfir-e-ishq huuñ maiñ banda-e-islām nahīñ but parastī ke siwā aur mujhe kaam nahīñ – Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelvi kāfir-e-'ishqam musalmānī marā darkār nīst har rag-e-man taar gashta hājat-e-zunnār nīst – Khusrau

Supreme Court's judgement on Afzal Guru.

Divya Dwivedi on how India's constitutional forms were shaped by Ambedkar's anti-caste vision, while upper castes populated and controlled the institutions built under them.

My mother wanted to name me "Nihaal". My father wanted "Om", after my grandfather, Omkar Nath. The Pandit decided on "Nikhil" after looking at the kundali. Everybody calls me Om or Omi at home. Nobody calls me Nihaal. My mother's wish was suppressed once again.

I'm re-reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri so I can find good things about my name.

fikr-e-ma'āsh ishq-e-butāñ yaad-e-raftagāñ is zindagī meñ ab koī kyā kyā kiyā kare – Sauda

Hi, Pranav. I agree with you. Now say it with me: "Hindu Rashtra is a terrorist notion. People who vote for the BJP and Congress are Hindu terrorists. Hindus and liberal Hindus who whitewash the fact that Hindutva is a terrorist notion are Hindu terrorists."

Naseem (1995) – Saeed Akhtar Mirza

In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The Brahminical Hindutva terror state has none.