The latest newsletter from SouthAsiaSpeaks is out! Meet our 2024 fellows & read excerpts from Zeyad Masroor Khan's & Shah Tazrian Ashrafi's debuts books. southasiaspeaks.substack.com/p/meet-the-cla…

A beautiful thing that came out of this review is that Aligarh is also the hometown of Saurabh (they/them) and his family has worshipped Sayyed baba, a supernatural figure revered by many Hindus and Muslims of Aligarh.

Eid Mubarak lovelies ❤️
May Allah accept all our Ramzan ibadaat. And may we continue the spirit of giving, empathy, and activism.

Excited to be heading to my second TED Talks in Vancouver, seven years after my last one! I’ll be speaking about hidden environmental wars and the brave people defending nature on our behalf.

👀 !!! Excited and grateful to see Brotherless Night here.

So proud to see Zeyad Masroor Khan's (SAS, 2021) masterpiece City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh on this list.

I interview the very eloquent Ziya Us Salam on his book, the state of the nation in one of its darkest and what these general elections bode for India's Muslims, for Article 14

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New Interview: I talked to the Int’l Crisis Group’s Sarah Elaine Harrison about how the idea of “proportionality” is being abused in Gaza, how judgments about int’l law are determined, & whether the Biden admin is ignoring US laws in its push to aid Israel newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…

A thoughtful discussion about Gujarati pulp fiction in Mid-Day (Mumbai) between translator Vishwambhari S Parmar and writer/editor Neerja Deodhar.

I was asked to share some thoughts too.

Congratulations to SouthAsiaSpeaks mentor, V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, whose astonishing new book #BrotherlessNight has been longlisted for the Women's Prize 2024.

Last chance to see this incredible documentary -- a heartbreaking testament to Rohith Vemula's struggle and searing indictment of caste society. Register now -- it's streaming through tomorrow.
Himal Southasian Film Southasia #ScreenSouthasia

Actor Safia Arain performs a scene from Stella-shortlisted novel ‘Hospital’ by Sanya Rushdi. Translated from the Bengali.

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Thank you SouthAsiaSpeaks and Arunava Sinha!