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My name is Aamir Aziz. I am a poet.
My poem Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega has been used without my knowledge, consent, credit, or compensation by the internationally celebrated artist Anita Dube.
My three immediate wishes for which we need to organise in this anti-fascist moment
1. Release of political prisoners
2. Burial of CAA/NRC/Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita
3. Right to work and welfare
And on a personal level get back to making abstruse experimental images
#AntiFascist
Jailed Kashmiri politician Engineer Rashid lodged in Tihar jail has won the North Kashmir seat in an election where voters came out in record numbers despite reports of suppression. What is happening in Kashmir ? I tried to find in this report @NoemaMag
https://t.co/SmSukpa7fu
BJP's #Ayodhya debacle is a moment of such great beauty. Poems should be written & songs sung about it. Future generations should be told of a leader who claimed to have come from God, and was shown his place in the birthplace of the God he weaponised against India's minorities.
"Thanks for the effort Rahul that you've put into all this mathematics" should be on a t-shirt and get distributed across all journalism schools in the country.
You can build as big a temple as you want but if you bulldoze a thousand homes in the same neighborhood then our people are going to notice, and remember... because the idea of India is still far bigger than one political party's skewed idea of India.
Opens her eyes to see them one last time, wipes her face & cradles her with the gentle tenderness of a parent tucking his toddler into bed for the night. Where is Tarik? he asks. Her little brother maybe. Side by side they lay wrapped as he fusses with their final burial shrouds.
"Movies touch our hearts, awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive."
Martin Scorsese. Born on this day in 1942.