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#AMU, #JNU, Historian, museums, writer, critic, bylines @thewire @firstpost @dailyO Consultant & journalist at https://t.co/asULSXfBsL
Mar 7, 2023 36 tweets 14 min read
On this International Women's Day, I am sharing a few of the articles I have written on women. A thread 🧵👇 List of 8 Muslim women who broke the glass ceiling in a patriarchal society

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Oct 5, 2022 7 tweets 6 min read
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was an editor & poet who also wrote poetry in praise of Lord #Ram
A thread 🧵👇
#Dussehra
@iamrana @RizwanAhmad1 @AdilNajam @joshiamitabhevo @AzmiShabana @irfaniyat Na to naaquus se hai aur na asnaam se hai

Hind ki garmi-e-hungama tere naam se hai    

(Neither because of conch nor by its idols
The excitement and love thriving in India is by your name)
#Dussehra
Aug 13, 2022 12 tweets 9 min read
#MuslimsAgainstThePartition a thread

Allah Bux Somroo of Sindh was a mass leader who organized Azad Muslim Conference to oppose Jinnah's demand of Pakistan. It was a coalition of several Muslim political outfits representing a majority of Indian Muslims. He was killed in 1943. Mirza Ali Khan, Popular as Faqir of Ipi, raised an army of 10k pathans in Waziristan during WWII, allied with Netaji Subhas & Axis powers & in 1948 asked Nehru to provide arms to his militia so that Kashmir could be freed from Pakistani invaders
#MuslimsAgainstThePartition