Spotted in DC.

Umar has spent 4 years in jail, along with countless others like Khalid Saifi, Sharjeel, and Gulfisha. As activists face relentless denial of bail, we must unite and raise our voices for their release. #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners"

So many pictures of dead children every day. Can’t believe the world is accepting this evil.

If you’re still supporting Israel’s assault on Gaza, you’re a soulless ghoul.

A small corrective to the tidal wave of misinformation and disinformation that abounds on Twitter dhakatribune.com/opinion/longfo…

I met a young woman from Gaza yesterday who lost her leg in the genocide. I tried so hard to hard to hide my tears and smile so that I could possibly make her smile. But then I could tell she was trying to smile to not disappoint me as I was trying to make her smile. Her mom

Hasina’s... father was a great political leader...whose commitment to secularism, democracy & religious freedom became the nation’s founding values. To burn down his home & censor his image is to erase the origin stories upon which the country was built. nytimes.com/2024/08/24/opi…

#mumbai #memories A beautiful exhibition to celebrate Krishen Khanna’s legacy as he turns 100. Tapestries, painting, sculptures. His bandwallah collection is absolutely gorgeous!

Lovely to see this. Mr. Khanna generously agreed to let me use a painting of his for the jacket of my first book, Changing Homelands. Designed by Anuradha Roy of Permanent Black Would love to see this exhibition some day.

Since the Taliban tried to silence us, we’ve raised our voices in defiance, singing for freedom and equality. We refuse to be erased. I call on all women around the world to stand with us in solidarity. Join us in this fight for freedom, justice.Together we are unstoppable.

Pakistan, has a relatively greater interest in restoring at least a minimum of exchanges and cooperation. India, on the contrary, has evinced a more or less complete lack of interest in any substantive interaction with Pakistan. scroll.in/article/107250… By: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

One of the legends of written law in India #AGNoorani passed away today at 3:20pm at his residence in Mumbai.He was 94 Rest in power Noorani sahab. Your magisterial writings will be the abstracts and chronicles of our times.

The great A.G. Noorani is no more. His caregiver says he died this afternoon in Bombay. Ghafoor, as his friends called him—and I am proud to have been among their ranks—had been ailing for some time but was still working furiously on a book he had hoped to complete, on the

Ghafoor Noorani (1930-2024) was a journalist’s journalist, erudite, versatile, brave, fiercely independent, passionately committee to citizens’ rights and constitutional values — and inexhaustibly productive on issues that matter. Here’s Frontline’s initial tribute to its

I was happy to find Noorani sahab’s work on communal violence echoed in parl debates in 1969 + also sad that his analysis remains so relevant. He has been not only a scholar of S Asia but also a participant in its debates; there’s an index entry for his name in “Hurt Sentiments.”

Press Club of India’s statement on UP Government’s Digital Media Policy 2024 The government should not encroach upon the space that the Constitution allows journalism. We demand that the Government of UP withdraws clause 7(2) from its Digital Media Policy 2024 with immediate effect.

Politicians, academics, lawyers, students, and people from all corners of society took to social media to mourn the death of A.G. Noorani, one of India’s finest public intellectuals and a legendary author. 3/4

For decades we kept hearing how polio could not be eliminated because of the 'backwardness' of some Global South countries. Time to pay more attention to how well-controlled diseases can reinvigorate because of the backwardness, bigotry & bloodthirst of much of the 'West'.

UVA placed a plaque in honor of civil disobedience days after it created rules outlawing many forms of civil disobedience. Many thanks to Gareth Gaston and his family for speaking up and to John Edwin Mason for offering his perspective. dailyprogress.com/news/local/edu…