These students reached Congress headquarters to protest against them but then they met ASHUTOSH MISHRA. The rest is for you to see. 😂🙏🏻

Delighted to announce a new book… LOVE IN THE TIME OF HATE : IN THE MIRROR OF URDU. If ever I have embarked on a labour of love, it’s this, it’s this, it’s this collection of essays on politics, people, passions and places. Published by Simon & Schuster, to be released on 18 May

It's broad daylight in India

Hindu mobs are targeting places of worship belonging to Muslims in Western Maharashtra.

But a determined village shows how syncretic ways of living can still be revived

My ground reportage for People's Archive of Rural India

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/ma…

Exclusive: It’ll be a year since the women whose sexual assault made it in a viral video filed their case. I accessed the CBI chargesheet and found that though police complicity is clear, no cops or accused Meitei extremist groups have been questioned article-14.com/post/manipur-p…

Student protests

The irony couldn't be darker. A conversation that never happens otherwise -- #caste reservations among #Muslims -- has suddenly become a pawn, a bogey, in the main debate for #LokasabhaElection2024 . Perverse and sad twist.

Yes, over one-third of #LokSabhaElections2024 is done. And everyone can see the trend is broadly not in favour of incumbency.

But #Congress leaders better stop behaving with such transparent glee, like they've already won.

“Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent. There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators…

Apoorva (Apoorva Saini) and I are excited to share citiesinfiction.com -a database that locates the literary landscape of India and South Asia. This website is for those who are interested in using fiction to teach and learn about the urban - cities, towns, and beyond.

'Om', the monthly Urdu magazine on Hindu spirituality,used to be published from Delhi till the 80s. It began in Lahore in 1934. Its editor was Gorakhnath Nanda. As a child I saw old editions of 'Om' in homes of older generation of Urdu-literate Punjabi Hindus (its major readers).

An extremely rare miniature leaf shaped Holy Qur'an produced at Agra during the reign of Akbar, bound in safina form dtd 982 AH (1574-5 AD)copied by the scribe Ali ibn Abd al-Karim al-Samri al-Basri. Sothebys, Private Coll.
William Dalrymple Rana Safvi رعنا राना Zeb Bilal #history #art #sacred

Rajasthan local journalist Congress winning 10-12 seats in LS Election.

#Dhruv_Rathee #viralvideo
#earthquake #LokSabhaElections2024
#KKRvPBKS

Economists like to talk a lot about how the 1991 market reforms purportedly “lifted” tens of thousands out of poverty. I wish they also focused on how socialized education since independence has elevated millions of Indians out of financial poverty and intellectual darkness..

Hazaar barq* gire laakh aandhiyaan utthen
Vo phool khil ke rahenge jo khilne vaale hain
~ Sahir Ludhianvi
*bjli