Dear all,

Harvard Divinity is offering #free intensive summer workshop on Shia #Islam and politics, commencing on May 27th. This workshop aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Shi'a Islam through a series of pre-recorded video lectures and weekly readings (15 weeks)

So many women I know, myself included, are held hostage to the whims of unreasonable, aggressive, downright abusive and dangerous men (brothers, husbands, exes, baby daddies). We thought education, financial independence and wilfulness would protect us. It didn’t. Whatever can?

Check out this little gem of an artefact. It’s a letter to W. E. B. Du Bois that he has annotated with handwritten instructions on how to pronounce his name. Thanks to our friends at the Du Bois Center in Great Barrington for showing us this! #dubois150 #dewboys #livinghistory

This man must be more than 80 years old. He is still working to live a dignified life,

NOT spreading hatred to earn a few bucks!

If you know me, there is a good chance that I would have asked you the question, “Is it because I’m a Muslim?” For the longest time, I was unsure of why I even said this. It was just one of the jokes that I made that had a good success rate with laughter.
quirknls.in/post/is-it-bec…

I love reading recipes in newspapers that find purpose as grocery bags. Or, blogs where a stranger pours their heart out. Recipes are mysterious. They cajole you. They invite you. They lure you. They are intimate only if you know how to read them!

Mamata Banerjee rose from outside Bengal's Bhadralok sphere but earned the confidence of the influential Bhadrolok society. Despite her populism, the subaltern gave her the first blow. Now, will sentiments against TMC's corruption spell its doom?
My piece
outlookindia.com/elections/west…

If I could pick my favourite sibling pairs from world cinema then it would be these four. Their love is fierce and stays with you forever. I know there are others. Feel free to tell me of them.

It will always be the Apu Trilogy for me. Few films make you wonder who wrote it better - the novelist or the director? This trilogy did that for me many years back and I still don’t have answer

This young lad Furqan Bashir was today's guest on Good Morning JK. While singing 'Mouj cha eakhir mouji aasaan', his eyes yelled up & voice cracked a little.
In times of auto tune, he was singing live & how melodiously. Apart from signing, he is good at playing Harmonium & Rabab

Ekadashi Mahatmya is a part of popular Hindu devotional literature. Here is a page from a 19th-cent. Ekadashi Mahatmya published by Naval Kishore Press, which ends ('samāpta shud') with Farsi couplets commemorating construction of a Shivalaya by Lala Jagannath in Bhaptamau (UP).

Our final assignment for the trimester is an exhibition showcasing all that we learned in the Public History Seminar! Students drew inspiration from Anne Gray Fischer and her recent POH article American Historical Association

Join us on 05/28 at 5 PM NLSIU for preview & celebration

“Under Modi, the Mobile Phone Has Been a Site of Expression and State Oppression” thewire.in/tech/mobile-ph…

There are days when I tell myself that I won’t be in Luru for too long. It’s only a pit stop for things much better that lie ahead. That’s the only consolation I have for living in a city where I failed to find myself! Inshallah, this comes true.

“PACK UP TIME FOR BJP” will be best thing to happen this summer. Hope it does..

The UNHCR Chair on Refugee Law at NLSIU is organizing a panel discussion titled “Representation in Refugee Law: The Right to Legal Aid for Refugees in India”, on May 20, 2024.

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Remember the president of ⁦Columbia University⁩ canceled graduation after arresting 200 of her own students? Today those same students stood strong by holding a beautiful alternative graduation ceremony at St. John the Divine near campus.

Major display of student power.👊⤵️

Happening Now: The People’s Graduation 2024 at Columbia and Barnard. On display is the beautiful power of solidarity, love, student movement, faculty & staff organizing power in the fight for justice and humanity ❤️✊🏽 Columbia University Barnard College

If you don't want our country to suffer from horrific war right after the elections - vote for INDIA candidates.

Vote BJP and NDA out.

I will offend people but the civil society in India on left-liberal side uses a language which can't be understood by masses. They address audience in urban spaces or living outside India. Majority of Muslims don't understand the kind of Urdu Faiz had written, believe me, mostly