This article by Urvashi Butalia explains the role of women in the struggle categorically negates the existence of Muslim Women in the struggle. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

A set of cards drawn by Khalid Saifi's youngest daughter, an eight year old, in December 2020, which shows, she said, “his favourite ice cream.” Nargis Saifi his wife, said their child remembers him by constantly drawing cards and writing notes.  ©️Shahid Tantray #KhalidSaifi

Danish Siddiqui, a Reuters photojournalist, was killed in clashes in Spin Boldak district in Kandahar, sources confirmed. The Indian journalist was covering the situation in Kandahar over the last few days.

What a great loss. His photos on Delhi riots and Covid mass funerals will remain the defining images of India's descent into the hell of illiberalism and misgovernance

"The lesser citizens" #Assam

Post-historical POLITICAL NECROPHILIA IN ASSAM | Countercurrents countercurrents.org/2021/09/post-h…

Colonial Episteme, Political Forgetting, and the Quest for Decolonising History ambreen agha أمبرين reviews Erica Zuniga 's The Loss of Hindustan for Economic & Political Weekly epw.in/journal/2021/4…

I reviewed Shenila K-Moolji's (Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji ) book, Sovereign Attachments:Masculinity, Muslimness & Affective Politics in Pakistan, that advances the concept of "Islamo-masculinity" in the performance of sovereignty by state and non-state actors Economic & Political Weekly epw.in/journal/2022/4…

"The anti-CAA solidaritirs have grown into collectives, support groups to resist oppression," ‏اِرم آغا at Outlook India

In India sartorial politics has reached its nadir. Started with the anti-CAA protests where the (Muslim) protestors could be “identified by their clothes” to d recent incident where Muslim women were forced to remove their hijab. ambreen agha أمبرين for IE. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

#StandWithAfreenFatima

Thrilled to share my first byline in The Caravan magazine: Faith Accomplice Danish Ansari's role in the Bharatiya Janata Party 's Pasmanda Politics. Kudos to my supervising editor Amrita for the superb work on my story. Read 👇 caravanmagazine.in/politics/danis…

"Faustian Bargain?" S Jaishankar As The Voice of Modi's Hindu Nationalist Foreign Policy. My second cover story for the The Caravan . Edits by the brilliant Puja Sen ! Link: caravanmagazine.in/government/jai…

🚨⚠️ "UP accounts for 36% of that total decline followed by Jammu and Kashmir, which accounts for 26%, then Maharashtra (8.5%), Tamil Nadu (8.1%), Gujarat (6.1%), Bihar (5.7%) & Karnataka (3.7%). Except in TN, Muslims alone witnessed an absolute decline.." indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

April cover on The Taming of The Election Commission of India. Thank you champ editor 🏆 Puja Sen Link: caravanmagazine.in/government/tam…

May the greetings of God be upon all the martyrs of Islam.

In 1990, Nelson Mandela called Khameini "My Leader"

The principle of Ashura and Karbala is eternal and neverending. In Shi'i esotericism, he followers of the archetypal Ḥusayn will keep sacrificing for Truth. إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

A man like Sayyed Ali Khamenei, who spent his life confronting the most genocidal and brutal enemies, deserves no end but martyrdom at the age of 86.