What is Muharram teaching me this year?
Memories from the past and reflections on the future
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Superboys of Malegaon is a cinematic win for Indian Muslimness
‘Arrey, shauk paal ke kya karega, Malegaon mein tu marega!’ I’ve rewatched Superboys of Malegaon for many reasons — its larger than life portrayal of small-town characters, storytelling at its finest that roots for the underdogs, but also the fact that it is carried on the shoulders of Muslim characters
It is time the silent amongst us, speak up
The antidote to fear is not silence, it is creating communities where we share fears and hopes together
All that is good for health this summer
घर का खाना, BDS and exercising (your voting right)
Staying in touch with the trees to keep up with the times
And drawing lessons from them to carry along
Can simplicity and innocence of love help us survive the real world?
A question I returned to after watching Laapataa Ladies
A letter by a former KNC student
And finding hope through educators who continue to make their voices heard
Recognising the many meanings of Shab-e-Barat 🕯️
Observing the night of lights and destinies in a changing world
Can anyone ever be completely fearless?
Thoughts on fears, flowers, freedoms and barbed wires
What’s common between a bowl of zarda, a ginger cat and hot jalebis?
Scenes from a Republic Day weekend
Annapoorani depicts the many hurdles a woman has to cross to achieve her career dream, within and outside her family
Too many spoilers, because well the movie has been taken off Netflix
This poem is not a poem
And other things one sits with on a Monday morning
culture writing
The radical need for friends to become informed safe spaces
Hey everyone, thank you for being a reader and subscriber to my newsletter this year. The idea for this newsletter has mostly been to untangle questions and dilemmas that emerge through the very act of being. In some ways, this newsletter has turned into a garden of sorts, which I
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To demonstrate to ourselves and grieve collectively
Recognising the work of gathering for the self and the world
palestine
A call towards rehumanisation must make us think deeply about protecting childhoods
In Palestine and everywhere else in the world
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Recognising our entry points into a cause
A quick check-list into ways we can connect with Palestine and the world better
global south matters
How are you?
Holding space for all emotions that arise and leaning into solidarity
Newsletter
Reading and listening to voices on Palestine
And few explainers from those in other parts of the world
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On Communities and Intersectional Solidarity
This piece is getting published after the news of the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in northern Gaza and loss of hundreds of Palestinian lives who were patients, doctors, caregivers, medical staff there. Speak up, speak up, speak up. Do not be a bystander. Over the past few days,
Essays
To mother (or not, now, how)
Conversations amongst women across all generations must encompass every possibility and definition of motherhood
Poetry
Feeling the first of the many seasons of a poetry journey
A look at the year that has come with exciting collaborations, new learnings and letting go of old systems
Reviews
Calling out shame in a 'log kya kahenge' society
Lessons from Ismat Chughtai, Devdas' Chandramukhi and Dahaad TV Series
Roots
Building allyship & solidarity through shared tiffins
A childhood memory, present-day friendships and action-filled hope to tide over hate and othering
history
Learning to knock on doors, literally and figuratively
And the difference between being an 'independent' and a 'freelancer' writer