So much of my #photographic life has been spent in #Union meetings in Meghalaya. I don't know if meetings are worthy photographic subjects but somehow they have made me understand and participate in my world and its blighted times. So some union meeting images 🧵
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Women in Mumbai endure overcrowded, unsafe local trains daily, then go home to cook, clean, & manage households. This is the reality we ignore. Imagine the burden. Fix this inhumane system or stop pretending to care about citizens
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Why don’t these NRIs just return to India and experience amrit kaal? They have 100 smart cities to choose from to stay, BHIM and UPI and also two lakh crores revenue from the Mahakumbh.
If you wanna diss the Mughals, use them:
Sher Shah Suri: drove Mughals out of Hindustan. Died undefeated. Chivalrous statesman.
Nadir Shah: Napoleon of Asia. Crushed Mughal might decisively for good.
Tipu Sultan: first Indian king to shun Mughal suzerainty.
But you won’t. 😊
The Ahoms weren’t ‘crushed’ by the Mughals in the seventeenth century. Despite short-term losses there is nothing in record to support this claim. In fact, the military loss of the Mughals had a long memory in Ahom courtly culture. Read contemporary sources in Assamese & Persian!
Last night a MAGA asked me whether I'd finished making the curry. It's so weird--why would they think that's a big own? I make it frequently enough. Anyway, I informed him Usha Vance was making it this time.
One of the most inspiring feminists, Urvashi Butalia, has reviewed my book ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X’ for The Wire and it makes everything worthwhile. Called it ‘ Remarkable, Quiet, and Yet Devastating Account of An Ordinary Woman’s Life’
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India needs a serious conversation on Private Univs-- unchecked spread, no SC ST OBC reservation, factory-model shady "publishing" to boost rankings & luring students w campus ads!
Just iceberg's tip- all manner of finance, research, ethical violations happening. no regulation!
“Libertarian” tech bros cheering on the abolition of work from home tells you a lot. These people aren’t for innovation, results, responsibility, and personal choice. They are authoritarians. They worship control and hierarchy.
"The whole purpose of the UPI nonsense wasn't to grow the Indian economy, but it was to give the losers some money, efficiently" - Ranith Roy
"Indian voter knows that a govt which can’t manage traffic can't give them economic prosperity; so they vote for HANDOUTS" Modi-Freebies?
After Trump was sworn in as the 47th US President, social media users took to X to share a video claiming that EAM Jaishankar was asked to leave during the ceremony. #AltNews' fact check shows that this was not the case | @Shinjineemjmdr
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Hollywood film ORIGIN on Netflix is introducing the world to the Hindu caste system,
They're all brown, they're all Indian, Right now to this day, There is system in India where generations of people are forced to clean sewers with their hands, they are beneath the lowest....
I write for @thewire_in on #RamMandirAnniversary#AyodhyaRamTemple#ayodharammandir on how our cities are changing, and the further marginalization of Muslims in India.
"Hindutva Urbanism": How National Schemes & Events Displace Marginalised Communities https://t.co/MNcXcxuvLK