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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Been listening to Kashmiris and I realise they think about this one thing a lot: dissaperance. It's not the same feeling of loss that you and I might feel.

This is something else. It's dispossession. I don't think we have the imagination to understand what they are feeling.

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Even when they're not talking about it, they are talking about it.

They are trying to share experiences of invisibility. About being cut off. Divided. Unseen.

We are constantly talking about them. Without talking about them.

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We see them. But we can't look at them. We see them in a way that makes them want not to be seen.

There's a certain unfortunate power we have. And it's not just in their heads. It's in their streets. It's in their neighborhoods.

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To not recognise this is to deny one of the most fundamental dimensions of human freedom: the desire to be left alone; the desire not to be known, or to be known on your own terms.

We don't just deny their common freedoms. We deny them this most intimate part of themselves.

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13 Jan
There is now a fresh rot of pro-Hindutva groups on @Reddit, including a sub-Reddit titled “Muslimahs for Hindu Men,” "where Muslim women and children are sexualized in the most grotesque, dehumanizing and violent ways imaginable"

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As we speak, there are open calls for the abduction and rape of Muslim women being seen and heard on @Reddit with vast gleeful participation of H men.

If this is not evidence of a thriving ecosystem, then what exactly is?

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This has a long history in our majority culture.

Savarkar justified rape as a legitimate political tool by Hindutva leaders

He urged Hindu men to treat Muslim women as “enemies” in his book Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History,
Read 6 tweets
13 Jan
We still live in the same world where 127 muslims were arrested under UAPA for attending a 3 day seminar in Surat in 2001.

It took 19 years to acquit all of them. 5 of them died in the long trial process

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Ask yourself: how are muslims supposed to organise publically against these Dharam Sansads which are an existential threat to their lives?

Wouldn't they again be risking 20 years of incarceration or worse of they tried?

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And let's not forget what happens after the court acquits you. You are still branded a suspect and a terrorist with links to armed groups in Pakistan.

This is an unlivable reality for muslim scholars, activists and journalists.

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Read 7 tweets
11 Jan
For me, M Kesavan's article wasnt just about UP elections. It was about how we as a people imagine ideas around freedom and security.

It was about how we choose to live and die under successive governments without anything fundamental changing.

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Why do our expectations from those who protect us have nothing to do (anymore) with demands for safety, public health and collective well being?
The idea that covid deaths are a natural phenomenon has a firm hold in public conciousness. It's isn't seen as a preventable collapse of a system. Because our media doesn't ask questions about what went wrong.
Read 6 tweets
10 Jan
"...the dog whistle of Islamophobia has now become a foghorn"

Do read this article by renowned author Arjun Appadurai

m.thewire.in/article/politi…
...the relationship between nationalism and violence is both intimate and two-way. We are accustomed to thinking that nationalism can lead people to kill and die in the name of the nation."
"When nationalism becomes extreme, its believers also become extreme in their readiness to kill or die for the nation"
Read 14 tweets
8 Jan
In 1951, the world decided to legally protect itself from genocide. So they codified it into a document.

This document is called The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or Genocide Convention.

India is one of the 152 signatories

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This convention is a response to the atrocities of the holocaust.

Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in 1944 to describe Nazi policies in occupied Europe, and the Armenian Genocide campaigned for its recognition as a crime under international law.

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The important thing is to focus on what makes genocide stoppable.

The convention is not a fact after an event. It asks us to recognise the "intentional effort to completely or partially destroy a group based on its nationality, ethnicity, race, or religion"

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Read 11 tweets
8 Jan
Muslim women knew it was going to happen again. And the state did nothing about it.

They filed cases for Sulli deals but no FIR had been registered.

New story from @BehanBox

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Hyderabad police refused to include trafficking charges.
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