After reading Nidhi Razdan's Blog on what happened with her job offer at Harvard, I thought I'll share that I was approached too by people claiming to be from Harvard Kennedy School for a seminar. Call it a personality trait but I don't get too excited or sucked in by such stuff. I honestly don't know if the invitation was fake but what's uncanny with Nidhi and my story is that I was contacted around the same time - August 2019. I believe Nidhi was contacted in Nov 2019. Although I was sent official forms of Harvard for personal details, I was adamant...

Request to All my Muslim brothers & sisters,
Stop making a mockery of our religion by congregating for prayers.
The Ka'aba shareef has been shut due to the #CoronavirusOutbreak.
That in itself should be an example for you.Prophet Mohammed(pbuh) saw a..
..Bedouin who was going to pray without tethering his camel. When the prophet asked him why he was doing so, the Bedouin replied that he was placing his trust in Allah and had no need to tie the camel.
The prophet told him:
“Tie your camel and place your trust in Allah.”
..

Today, the urs of Shah-e-Hamdan would have been observed with much fervor in Khanqah-i-Moula in Srinagar.

Hazrat Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani was a Persian Sufi and poet who shaped the lives of Kashmiris & is Kashmir's patron saint.
6th Dhul Hijjah is his death anniversary. Kashmiris sing this folk song for him:
Bed dargah khanqah, terwei
Yeti Auras bedi bedi pervei
Temi angane berkat servei
Bed dargah Khanqah terwei
Teti Aurad bedi bedi pervei

Let us flock to the shrine of Shah-e-Hamdan at Khanqah-i-Moula
Let us recite Aurad loudly
in an..

Anybody who thought I "made up" the story about my friend & her sanghi bf, now husband, please see this.
Stuff like this is actually thought.
As for the verses Dixit ji is pointing out, the context of both is when Muslims who came to do hajj pilgrimage were attacked & killed..

https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1157824640783282178

.. by the Quraysh tribe (who had not converted to Islam and were opposing Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h.) inspite of signing a treaty with the prophet for not attacking pilgrims during the pilgrimage.
The people who attacked were friends, some of them were even family.
The Quran..

#MainBhiChowkidar is the most convenient way to shift accountability to people.
I'll explain.
"Everyone who is fighting corruption is a Chowkidaar"
Admitted.We're all fighting corruption.We all want NiravModi,Choksi,Mallya back.But who has the power to bring him back?
You Modiji. "Everyone who is fighting dirt is a Chowkidaar"
Admitted. We want "Swacch Bharat" and will keep our surroundings clean but the open nalas,potholes on roads,dirty Ganga, will be cleaned by who?
You Modiji!

"Everyone who is fighting social evils is a Chowkidaar"
Admitted.We want+

Hi @AJStream
Here's a quick look at #CitizenshipBill in India for the international audience:
India shares borders with 7 countries including China & Pakistan.
The partition in 1947 saw millions displaced overnight. Countries were created & so was a refugee problem!
In 1955,the..

https://twitter.com/AJStream/status/1085157819345760256

..then Congress govt. drew up guidelines as to who can acquire an Indian Citizenship & on what grounds.This was called the Citizenship Act 1955 which clearly stated that ILLEGAL migrants are those who (i)enter the country without valid travel documents,or (ii)enter with valid..

Thread.
This is why I think @kanhaiyakumar is the future of Indian politics.
Watch this lady questioning Kanhaiya on the legitimacy of questioning PM Modi's personal life (abandoning his wife Jashodaben and family) when we don't question Buddha who did the same. - @kanhaiyakumar on why it is fair to question PM Modi's personal life because he uses his personal life to promote himself.
Listen in !

As a student of history, I don't get this deep seated aversion that the BJP-led government has towards "Mughals". Is it so hard for them to understand that Mughals unlike the Mongols or other Central Asian invaders made India their home. For that matter even Aryans were..

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...immigrants who made India their home and led to the advent of the Vedic age. That way the Dravidians should hate North "aryan" descendants. But when an immigrant makes a land their home and contributes to the economy and consolidation of a geographical area to provide..