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Mar 31, 2020 11 tweets 3 min read
Why the below image is problematic, a thread;
Firstly @fayiq_wanie I want to make this clear, my below how many ever tweets are not to target at you. I have seen the below attached image on your Instagram as well and it is actually the reason I decided to explain how certain kind of imagery is problematic and further feeds into the agenda put forth by the tyrannical, oppressive regime. Pellets is a very grave reality that we all may know about but it is no secret that pain and grief does not strike equally, especially in Kashmir. Neither do crackdowns.
Dec 31, 2019 11 tweets 6 min read
Dear #Kashmir /Social Media Mass/Anybody sober enough to read this;
Salam! It's important to start with a salutation since this may be the last of these threads. It's New Year's Eve (Not Islamic, White new year) This be trippy.
#HappyNewYear
#Welcome2020 #HappyNewYear2020 1/? This year has been just cinematic ironies come to life and heart wrenchingly dystopian tragedy. I have lost the amount of times I have won and lost and cried and laughed. The dichotomy of this year can possibly e summarised in this @billieeilish song;
"What do you want from me?
Dec 6, 2019 11 tweets 4 min read
Dear #Kashmir, a thread (8)
A ventriloquist is a person, an entertainer, who can make their voice appear to come from somewhere else, typically a dummy. It took me a long while to understand how disturbing that actually is and how I always felt like the dummy and my 1/? surroundings, the entertainer that would map out words and thoughts and I'd perform. Kashmir, how truly frightening, don't you think ? I always believed in order to truly be happy I just needed to attain adulthood. Somebody should have gonged it out of me. What utter bullshit 2/?
Oct 26, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
Dear #Kashmir, a thread (7)
B, tonight as dawn breaks, it will mark 72 years since you have had to bear witness to a foreign occupation. India, has held their hands to your Jugular vein. Their murky limbs have been asphyxiating you close to a century and I couldn't recall 1/? this date until last year. Most believe that our love for you is extinct, Kashmir. They are unaware how my heart has been spewing lava since August 5th and I am afraid this volcano that India has erupted isn't going dormant anytime soon. I am angry, Kashmir. I am seemingly 2/?
Oct 2, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
Dear #Kashmir , a thread (6)
Orange is my favourite colour. No other colour comes close. I am not too sure where the obsession began. I am pretty sure it stems from the Chinar leaf 🍁 (or as Canadians like to refer to it as Maple leaf) it will always be a Chinar for us 1/? All the best things are orange. The fruit 🍊 pumpkins 🎃 (no, not pumpkin spice lattes, that trash is weird). Kashmir, nothing beats my Dadi’s Kahwa straight out of a samawar. In the summers when it’d be sweltering I’d still ask her to make me some. She’d always look at me 2/?
Sep 24, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
Dear #Kashmir , a thread (5)
My love, I broke. I am broken now. I tried assimilating the pieces the best I could. That is why I haven't written to you in so long. Forgive me, but also you have to start documenting your apologies to your subjects. You know my love for you can 1/? perhaps outstretch oceans, but I am a girl that weighs *ahem* pounds who doesn't keep up with her gym so her muscle strength is below average. Physically, I am not strong. I'd lend you whatever I have, but B I asked you one thing, keep your children safe. On September 17th 2/?
Sep 1, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
Dear #Kashmir, a thread (4)
My love, I know you are okay. I was just checking in. I know I seem so desperate. You probably can't stand the sight of me. I ignored you for a better part of a decade and now I keep springing back to you like a dog on a short leash. Sorry again 1/? Sorry that this half assed apology is all I have left to give you. Kashmiris forsake their life in your name and here I am wallowing in my sorrow not realising what you are probably going through this very minute. Allah only knows which area, which alley,nook they are barging 2/?
Aug 31, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
Dear #Kashmir, a thread (3)
My love, are you any better today than you were last week? I shouldn't really ask. It was 30th Aug yesterday, that date marks the 'International Day of the Disappeared'. I know, who would ever mark such a day on the calendar. What a ghastly thing 1/? to dedicate just a day to. Then again Kashmir, aren't you really the real neverland and the land of 'lost boys'? You have turned into a place where mothers whail into the dead of the night hoping their screams translate to answered prayers. One day, their lost boys find their 2/?
Aug 29, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
My people, #Kashmiri people have mystical blood and even with a behemoth in front of us, India, we still won't give in. You illegally took away our rights, used us as a smoke-screen to mislead your seemingly ignorant masses, locked us on our land, converted our homes into a 1/? makeshift prison, shot us with 'non-lethal' pellet guns that shot a million lead bullets that blinded 600 of my people. 600 future radiant doctors, lawyers, writers, artists. You are a BADZAAT HARAM NASAAL KI KAUM. You are nothing but thieves and filthy pests that never 2/?
Aug 26, 2019 10 tweets 3 min read
Dear #Kashmir, thread (2)
My love, how are you today? As usual, when the night recedes and dawn breaks I miss you the most. From Tahajud to Fajjar, Zuhur to Isha, this cycle continues in perpetual motion and I miss you. I have lost my way. I would like to find it again. 1/? Kashmir, I think this time is especially painful because badi mama would be up too. She reads every Nimaz, but this one is special. I know in my heart she is up thinking about me when I think about her. It's symbiotic, does it mean you aren't a part of this, don't be petty. 2/?
Aug 24, 2019 17 tweets 4 min read
Dear #Kashmir, a thread;
My love, how are you? Like the narcissist I am about to unload all about myself. I have now been up for 46 hours consecutively. My eyes don't burn as much. I think my tears finally ran out. My hair still falls though. I had a McChicken, fries and a [1/?] hotpocket. It's the only meal I had in a good 36 hours. I think apart from losing hair I have lost weight. I can fit in my skinny leather pants and come up and see you. I can't though, can I? Today India's PM, the zealot, sure you know him. He received 'The Order of Zayed' [2/?]
Aug 19, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
#IndiaIsThreatForPeace
#IndianHitlerModi
#India a thread,
A nation that claims to be 'secular', 'democratic' and 'upholds the sacrosanct nature of the constitution'. You have demonized your own constitution by interpreting it in a way that makes you zealots look clean [1/?] All the while achieving what you always wanted, a Hindu India, just like Trump wants to #MakeAmericaWhiteAgain. Article 370 was a provisional article that was written into the constitution and there was an agenda written into play that needed to be adhered to before a step [2/?]
Aug 18, 2019 8 tweets 6 min read
#Kashmir A thread;
It is 4AM and as usual I exhaust both my phone and external battery's charge and switch to my laptop because my mind has fallen into a loop. I wake up, I barely function I open my phone so fast, I don't remember what day it is most days or what time it is [1/?] I see another slew of xenophobic, vile and cruel comments from mostly Indians who say 'Kashmir is our internal matter' underneath @hasanminhaj or whosoever amplifies our voice. Again I am so consumed with anger that my heart almost feels heavy and my eyes become fuzzy [2/?]