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happy birthday umar !
not sure if you ever got this letter that i had written earlier this year but I hope you get to read it someday 🤍
savarna ruling class propaganda in india is so strong that union leaders are demonised while das and ranka are celebrated as freedom fighters.
sharjeel imam wrote in 2017 about how indian muslims revered ram, krishna and shiva and also celebrated festivals like janmashtami and dussera in the pre-partition era.
i think it was mainly because rss didn't exist back then.
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Imam's own words on inter-community relations directly contradict the fundamentalist charge. In The Wire interview, he invokes the Qur'anic principles "Lakum deenukum wa liya deen" (To you be your religion and to me mine) and "La ikraha fid-deen" (Let there be no compulsion in religion), stating:It is the responsibility of Muslim scholars to make these ideas commonplace in order to undo the damage done by narrow-minded bigots among Muslims as well as non-Muslims . He also explicitly calls for alliances with other marginalised communities: build alliances with other marginalised classes to agitate for systemic changes. Now I am not a Muslim still I will investigate instead of calling someone a fundamentalist just for being religious
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Comedian @Masoom_Rajwani being removed for demanding justice for Sahil, a Dalit student who died by suicide at IIT Bombay.
Then they'll come for you—and you'll shout "Maine kiya kya hai?" and there'll be no one left to say "Iss ne kuch nahi kiya hai."
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UP, Uttarakhand and now Karnataka...
The skeletons keep tumbling out, thanks to real journalists like @rishitaakhanna. So in Karnataka, @ECISVEEP officials submitted least 61,059 Form-7 applications seeking the deletion of names with no mention of the reason for deletion. State govt must demand action @DKShivakumar
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this isn't merely a victory for Lula, one man. It's a triumph of the people against tyranny of the billionaire zionist class.
Congratulations Presidente Lula da Silva!
election results without vote chori 😍
Brazil’s incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has beaten his rival, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, to win an unprecedented fourth term by a knife-edge margin, according to Brazil’s official election body.
With 99.81% of votes counted, Lula has secured 51.76% of the vote, compared with Flávio Bolsonaro's 48.24%.
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people really need to get a grip on reality and stop glazing the congress like it’s some people’s liberation party ffs
when you got the most chilled out job being an economic advisor to someone who doesn't understand economics and decisions anyway get taken in washington.
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Bedi reminiscing the first question his “investors” asked him after he was caught defrauding them. Return their money else the police may repeat the treatment.
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sharjeel imam and sahil wakode both went to IIT bombay and faced discrimination over there based on their religion and caste respectively.
IITs, like rest of indian society, are riddled with casteism, patriarchy and islamophobia.
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Liberals cannot understand power structures. They equate all oppressor & oppressed expressions that don't fall into centrist utopian framework. All radical thoughts are equivalent, even if the expression of those in crosshairs of a violent machine that liberals literally empower.
Read somewhere that the animating spirit of the Nazis was not the strutting self-confidence, which came later, but dread-- that unless Germans take extreme steps they would be destroyed. Sanghis are a lot like that, afraid of everything incl the existential threat posed by essays
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Citizens of Mumbai cannot ask for justice against institutional murder of Dalit students.
Students of JMI can't ask for their right to union.
Indians cannot ask for accountability against vote chori & SIR.
Maintain 'peace', sit at home!!
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This is Jamia Millia Islamia, one of India’s most distinguished educational institutions, founded by nationalist Muslim intellectuals in defiance of colonial rule. It is being attacked today by those who had no contribution during the freedom struggle of this nation !































