“His words are free, my son is not.” Umar Khalid’s mother, Sabiha Khanum, writes on his prolonged incarceration, his book, and why it must be read.
In today’s The Indian Express.
idc do whatever u want, but I wonder what happens to your brain when you have a completely different face... like this would catapult me into complete psychosis
normalize saying “unfortunately you’re no longer a safe person for me and I refuse to continually sacrifice my nervous system to make you feel comfortable”
on a spree of watching the "commercially flop but critically acclaimed" Hindi films from 2000s and it keeps reminding me why satyajit ray said we're a fairly backward audience...
if there's one thing i have learned from the women before me, it is not to make huge life altering sacrifices for men. They do not deserve such loyalty and commitment
Calling a woman "beauty with brains" reinforces the idea that beauty & intelligence are somehow mutually exclusive for women. I know most people mean it as a compliment but its worth unlearning outdated stereotypes. Its 2026, let’s stop treating women's intelligence as a surprise