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30 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Remembering Prophet Muhammad. a kind, just and gentle man who married Khadija, a successful business woman almost twice his age, after being proposed by her. Their love blossomed over the years and the Prophet remained committed to her till the end. 1/n
#EidMiladUnNabi
The Prophet discussed everything that affected people's lives: sexuality, politics, economics, spirituality, war. The state he formed in Medina took redistributive measures seriously. 2/n
Being an orphan in a highly inegalitarian city he could relate to the pain of the excluded, injured and humiliated. Being unschooled he could think beyond the dominant norms. 3/n
A man of will and passion who was arguably betrayed by close confidantes and the revolution was derailed subsequently. But all movements succeed by their failures. His spirit will live on. 4/n
'Even a smile can be a charity' is what he used to say. Let us all smile in remembering him today and feel a bit light in the time of corona pandemic and toxic polarizations.5/5

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16 Oct
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan had a feudal-casteist orientation and is an icon of the Ashraf (high caste) Muslims. He looked down upon the subjugated caste Pasmanda Muslims with contempt and pejoratively addressed the weavers as 'badzaat'. 1/n
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The ideas of Sir Syed laid down the foundations of Muslim nationalism/communalism and inspired the notion of an exclusivist Muslim identity. 3/n
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20 Sep
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (1938):

"There are in my view two enemies which the workers of this country have to deal with. The two enemies are #Brahmanism and #Capitalism. 1/n
By Brahmanism I do not mean the power, privileges and interests of Brahmins as a community...By Brahmanism I mean the negation of the spirit of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. 2/n
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30 Aug
कुछ नए-पुराने #पसमांदा कार्यकर्ताओं ने पसमांदा विमर्श को एक ख़ास दिशा देने की कोशिश की है. पहली कोशिश #वहाबी/सलाफी/देवबंदी नज़रिए को बढ़ा-चढ़ा कर पेश करना और बरेलवी/शिया तबकों के ख़िलाफ़ ज़हर उगलना है. 1/n
जब #सय्यदवाद हर मसलक (पंथ) में है तो कुछ ख़ास मसलक को घेरने का क्या मकसद है? आवामी समझ यह ही है की वहाबी/सलाफी/देवबंदी मसलक सऊदी अरब के पेट्रोडॉलर से पल रहे मदरसों से फलती-फूलती है और इस्लाम का सब से कट्टर रूप है. 2/n
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मुझे व्यक्तिगत तौर पर चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद @BhimArmyChief पसंद हैं. नौजवान हैं, जुझारू हैं, सहारनपुर में स्कूल के दिनों से जातिगत भेदभाव के खिलाफ संघर्ष कर रहे हैं. स्थानीय राजपूतों-सवर्णों के दबदबे को खुल के चुनौती दी और आत्मसम्मान की लड़ाई को जिंदा रखा. 1/n
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14 Mar
**I am not your data**

Abhay Flavian Xaxa (Rest in power dear brother)

I am not your data, nor am I your vote bank,
I am not your project, or any exotic museum object,
I am not the soul waiting to be harvested,
Nor am I the lab where your theories are tested, 1/n
I am not your cannon fodder, or the invisible worker,
or your entertainment at India habitat center,
I am not your field, your crowd, your history,

your help, your guilt, medallions of your victory, 2/n
I refuse, reject, resist your labels,
your judgments, documents, definitions,
your models, leaders and patrons,
because they deny me my existence, my vision, my space, 3/n
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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar:

"Of the two ways of classifying people of India the religious classification is the one which is more impressive and arresting for the foreigner... 1/n
The impression of the foreigner is that there are only Hindus and Musalmans in India and that there are none others worth bothering about. That this should be his impression is quite natural. The air is filled with the din and noise of the Hindu-Moslem conflict. 2/n
How grave the conflict is, can be seen from the number of Hindu-Moslem riots that have taken place in recent years and the casualties and deaths that resulted from them.

But this struggle is a struggle for establishing an empire. 3/n
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