‘Urdu not alien to India’: SC upholds use of language on municipal signboard in Maharashtra scroll.in/latest/1081388…

X has received executive orders from the Indian government requiring X to block over 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees. The orders include demands to block access in India to

War between two countries never truly ends on the battlefield. It ends in hospitals, in orphanages, in the silent tears of mothers on both sides- who never declared it, may not have wanted it, but lost the most to it.

#BREAKING | "I am pleased to announce the Governments of India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire and to start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site": United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio #india #pakistan #ceasefire Vishnu Som

🔴#BREAKING | "Both sides would stop all firing and military action on land, air and sea with effect from 1700 Hours Indian time today" : Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on India-Pakistan ceasefire #India #Pakistan #Ceasefire

As a film person she must be thinking yeh kaam to production walo ka hai.

Guru Dutt at 100: The filmmaker who gave Hindi cinema its soul open.substack.com/pub/seenonscre… In this essay, I explore the inner world of a man who carried sorrow like second skin, and turned his heartbreak into poetry on screen. Read now on Substack 'Seen on Screen'.

Muzaffar Ali speaks to Asma A. Rafat about the 4K re-release of his 1981 classic—on poetry, silence, and making a film for those who feel, not just watch. maktoobmedia.com/more/film-and-…

What Raanjhanaa’s AI Re-Release Tells Us About Cinema’s Future open.substack.com/pub/asmarafat/…

The piece written by Asad Ashraf on Javed Akhtar is an opinion piece published in Maktoob . Sharing political disagreements and being a critic is not extremism. In fact, the way Javed Akhtar responded to the author is a model many social media users can learn from.

Any architects in my friend list? If you have a project, studio story, or even a design thought you would like to share, feel free to drop a comment below or send me a message. I would love to connect and explore. This is for a story. #architects

My piece examines how the Mahagathbandhan is weakening itself by excluding AIMIM from the alliance in Bihar for The Quint. Asaduddin Owaisi Manoj Kumar Jha AIMIM Rashtriya Janata Dal #Bihar share.google/Zlm4JgF4VeKbwA…

I wrote a story for New York Times Opinion, it got made into a movie. And Homebound, our film, is India’s entry for the The Academy awards! Yay! somen mishra Dharma Productions Karan Johar telegraphindia.com/amp/entertainm…

My story for the frontline : The 2019 women-led protest cleared room for a new Muslim public sphere, giving young urban Muslims the confidence to stand visibly in their own story. frontline.thehindu.com/news/muslim-ci… #Shaheenbagh #Muslims #Civilsociety

A year older, a year wiser… and still waiting for the wisdom to kick in.