Javeria.

MS English Literature, IIUI.

[Javeria. @Javeria_here]

Can't keep calmmmmmm. Our first publication wohooooooo💛🥺🥂

https://t.co/P4p7L4IfUa

[Reetika Revathy Subramanian @reetiks]

What women’s work songs reveal about the changing climate.
Long before climate science named the crisis, women across the world were registering these shifts in another language – through song. I write for @ConversationUK https://t.co/ZU8I4HFSLJ

[عشع @ceaseium]

floral ludo board... i want you

[Don't Panik @dpanikkar]

Raghu Rai. Trees. Magnum Photos.

[Batman 🇵🇰 @batmanofpak]

Islamabad’s natural beauty is being stripped away with tree cutting and concrete projects, replaced with palm trees that belong to Gulf climates. It feels like we’re slowly losing the identity of the city.

[Gharidah Farooqi (T.I.) @GFarooqi]

اسلام آباد کو کنکریٹ، انڈرپاسوں، ناکوں کا گرے جنگل کیوں بنایا جا رہا ہے؟؟؟ اس شہر کی خوبصورتی، ہرے بھرے سبزے، مارگلہ پہاڑیوں کو کیوں برباد کیا جا رہا ہے؟؟؟ کراچی اور لاہور کی بربادی کیا کم نہیں تھی۔ یوں تو تمام حکومتوں کے climate change پر بھاشن اعلی درجے کے ہوتے ہیں لیکن ناک کے نیچے شہروں کو برباد کیا جا رہا ہے۔ کوئٹہ والوں نے جس اذیت سے ناکے ختم کروائے، اب وہاں سے اٹھوا کر اسلام آباد میں لگوا دیے گئے ہیں جن کا نہ کوئی فائدہ، صرف عوام کو اذیت۔ بڑی اور ملٹی لین شاہراہوں کا مقصد ہی الٹا کر کے ��کھ دیا گیا ہے اوپر سے so-called development کے نام پر سڑکوں کو بند کر کے محض 5/10 منٹ کے راستے کو 30/40 منٹ کا راستہ بنا دیا گیا ہے جس سے ظاہر ہے فیول کی کھپت بھی زیادہ ہی ہو رہی ہے۔ اس شہر کے فیصلہ سازوں کو اعلی ایوارڈ دینا چاہئیے !

[Disgruntled Cyber Warrior @lilmisskhawaja]

This is what Srinagar Highway could look like if we planted Amaltas & Kachinar trees which are native to Islamabad. For added pops of colour some bougainvilleas hanging over the flyovers since they do well in our climate. Ai did this, maybe Mohsin Naqvi needs to get on ChatGPT

[Hassan Abbasian @HassanAbbasian]

Saw CDA is cutting down indigenous trees along Srinagar Highway to replace them with palm trees. This obsession with the UAE will damage the capital’s ecosystem and summers will become unbearable. These incompetent & inexperienced urban planners r on the verge of ruining the city

[꩜ @adorewordss]

romanticizing a spring afternoon at home

[Shumail 🇵🇰🍁 @Pakforever9]

In the quiet lanes of old Lahore,Multan,Rawalpindi,Peshawar,Karachi and other Pakistani cities,stand the faded havelis of our forefathers,silent witnesses to a time when life moved slower and homes had soul.
Their weathered wooden doors intricately carved with Jasmine flowers and geometric patterns,once welcomed generations with open arms,courtyards where children laughed under the shade of neem trees,where summer evenings were spent on charpoys listening to the dadi or nani's stories.
These havelis were not just houses ,they were living poems of our heritage.
Today,as modern concrete rises and swallows the skyline,these crumbling beauties remind us of roots we must not forget.
May these havelis forever live in our memories and in the stories we pass on to our children .
#Oldhavelis
#Pakistaniheritage

[Riaz Haq @haqsmusings]

The violet ones are Jacaranda trees in #Islamabad, the host city of #US-#Iran peace talks in #Pakistan. These trees bloom during late spring & early summer (April to June), transforming streets and parks into scenic, violet-carpeted landscapes. These trees thrive in the city's climate, creating a picturesque, serene environment that draws visitors.

[Jasir Shahbaz @LahoreMarquez]

No matter how you try to diminish it, but today is a historic day, when Pakistan is the center of entire world holding its breath for peace. Whatever happens today, we would be remembered for trying to avert World War III. There’s no perfect country to love but this is Home ❤️

[Javeria. @Javeria_here]

@mahwashajaz_ @RanveerOfficial Have you talked to him? 😭 Where?
I know he is the smartest, the most articulate person in Bollywood. Love to listen to his interviews. 🤎

[Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman]

If you're seeing lots of pictures of Tehran's amazing coffee shops and wondering what that's all about, I wrote this essay 10 years ago about the rise of contemporary café culture in Iran and its connection to very old Iranian "third space" traditions.
https://t.co/Ug2HOcItlf

[Shahid Hussain Raja @Shahid_H_Raja]

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

-John Berger

[Yusuf Serunkuma🌹 @YusufSerunkuma]

I cannot stop thinking about Dr Ali Larijani’s book, Fresh Air (What a title!), described as a collection of essays on philosophy, culture & political thought. Scholars tend to write shorter essays in a revolutionary fashion – in easily accessible prose.

Reminds me of Sayyid Qutb’s radical writing, Signposts on the Road.

Dear “Global South”/ subaltern scholars, we ought to cite our own. The next time I design a course, Larijani ought to be mandatory reading.

After this war is won, we’ll seek an English translation.

[Jay Vardhan Singh @Jayvtweets]

For those looking for a book that provides a good overview of Iranian History read this one

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

if you have a window that gets afternoon light, please sit in it. just once. with nothing in your hands. that light traveled 93 million miles specifically to find you.

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

sometimes, if you are lucky, there will be a tree outside your bedroom window, it’s important that you romanticise that tree as much as possible.