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What is Muharram teaching me this year?
Memories from the past and reflections on the future
Jul 6, 2025
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Superboys of Malegaon is a cinematic win for Indian Muslimness
‘Arrey, shauk paal ke kya karega, Malegaon mein tu marega!’
May 18, 2025
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The Adulthood Jig is Up!
Dancing for no reason as a gateway to inviting our child-like selves
May 28, 2023
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Superboys of Malegaon is a cinematic win for Indian Muslimness
May 18, 2025
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Building allyship & solidarity through shared tiffins
Aug 20, 2023
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Letting the Greys & Silvers Speak For Themselves
Jun 25, 2023
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Calling out shame in a 'log kya kahenge' society
Sep 3, 2023
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To mother (or not, now, how)
Oct 1, 2023
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The Adulthood Jig is Up!
May 28, 2023
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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
Jun 18, 2024
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All that is good for health this summer
घर का खाना, BDS and exercising (your voting right)
Apr 27, 2024
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Staying in touch with the trees to keep up with the times
And drawing lessons from them to carry along
Apr 7, 2024
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Can simplicity and innocence of love help us survive the real world?
A question I returned to after watching Laapataa Ladies
Mar 12, 2024
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Recognising the many meanings of Shab-e-Barat 🕯️
Observing the night of lights and destinies in a changing world
Feb 25, 2024
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Can anyone ever be completely fearless?
Thoughts on fears, flowers, freedoms and barbed wires
Feb 12, 2024
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What’s common between a bowl of zarda, a ginger cat and hot jalebis?
Scenes from a Republic Day weekend
Jan 29, 2024
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This poem is not a poem
And other things one sits with on a Monday morning
Jan 8, 2024
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The radical need for friends to become informed safe spaces
Safe space is not only a place where I want to feel heard and seen with my vulnerabilities, it is also a place where my radical hope for the future…
Dec 26, 2023
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