Athar Husain

activist#working for advocacy for 'Rule of Law'#Aman ki Raah,Social Democrat,Tea lover and proud Indian

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said https://t.co/61poVhRzmR

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Norwegian team and fans doing the Row are just beautiful.

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

History is made.

Lionel Messi is the all-time top goalscorer in @FIFAWorldCup history! 🤩🇦🇷

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Alan Greenspan, architect of the modern American economy, dies aged 100 https://t.co/na8P0fufRW

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Cancer served on a plate? How chemicals banned in Europe are killing Indians
#Carcinogenicchemicals #Cancer #Health #India @SushimMukul
https://t.co/z3tOd3mV8y

[Kumaon Jagran @KumaonJagran]

The whole world is watching FIFA 2026. Munsiyari is playing it.

While packed stadiums across North America host 48 nations under floodlights and billion dollar broadcasts, boys in the Himalayas of Pithoragarh are chasing the same ball with the same hunger. Just with better scenery.

Snow peaks in the background. No VAR. No commentary. Just football.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Le Président Trump a signé ce soir à Versailles l’accord entre l’Iran et les États-Unis.

Cet accord ouvre la voie à une paix durable et permet la réouverture du détroit d’Ormuz.

C’est un pas important dans la bonne direction pour nos compatriotes qui permettra d’obtenir bientôt une baisse des prix de l’énergie.

[SANJAY TRIPATHI @sanjayjourno]

व्हिस्की नहीं है कहीं। बेवजह का आरोप किसी पर भी लगाना उचित नहीं है। अखिलेश यादव बड़े नेता हैं। किसी कार्यकर्ता या पदाधिकारी के घर जाएँगे तो वो दिल खोलकर स्वागत करेगा, इसमें ग़लत क्या है!!

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

The denial of a hotel room to a BJP functionary because he is Muslim prompted this anguished rumination on whether India is losing its soul. This was certainly not the India I grew up in.

The Story Of A Hotel Check-In, And An India That No Longer Exists https://t.co/IyUhCzbkgA

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Deeply devastated by the tragic news from the Gulf of Oman. Three innocent Indian civilian seafarers — Patnala Suresh, Shivanand Chaurasiya, and Aditya Sharma — have lost their lives following a targeted US precision military strike on the commercial oil tanker, M/T Settebello.

These men were not combatants. They were civilian mariners doing their jobs, caught in the crossfire of a geopolitical standoff.

I strongly support the Government of India's swift and firm response in calling out this unacceptable overreach. By summoning the US Chargé d'Affaires to lodge a strong protest and forcefully raising the matter at the United Nations, New Delhi has made it clear that Indian lives are not acceptable “collateral damage”.

While the US enforces its maritime blockade, it must cease and desist from targeting commercial civilian infrastructure and crews. A military strike on an engine room, knowing civilians are on board, is unjustifiable.
Global maritime forces have plenty of non-lethal methods to intercept, redirect, or board non-compliant vessels. Resorting to missile strikes that kill civilian crews must stop immediately. Freedom of navigation must apply to the safety of the sailors who power global trade. I hope india firmly demands this of its US interlocutors since practically every ship in those waters carries Indian crew.

Our deepest prayers are with the bereaved families. We stand with you. 🕉️ शांति!

[Athar Husain @athardesi]

Azteca,Mexico...it all begins...the most sought out event I look forward for every four years...World Cup.
https://t.co/5qeIhngS8B

[World Cup Xtra @WorldCupXtraa]

Mexico's Azteca Stadium is ready to host the World Cup opening match between Mexico and South Africa!

[World Cup Xtra @WorldCupXtraa]

Mexico's Azteca Stadium is ready to host the World Cup opening match between Mexico and South Africa!

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

Today’s the day. @FIFAWorldCup 2026 is here. 🏆

[Rekhta @Rekhta]

Remembering Ram Prasad Bismil (1897-1927) on his birth anniversary. A prominent Indian revolutionary, poet, and freedom fighter who played a key role in India's struggle for independence. Born in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, he was one of the founders of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) and is best known for his involvement in the Kakori Conspiracy Case (1925), where he and his comrades looted a British government train to fund the revolutionary movement.
Bismil was also a talented poet who wrote patriotic verses in Hindi and Urdu under the pen name "Bismil".

Captured by the British, he was sentenced to death and hanged on December 19, 1927, in Gorakhpur Jail. His sacrifice remains an inspiration in India's freedom movement.

#RamPrasadBismil #IndianFreedomStruggle #UnsungHeroes #Rekhta

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

Breaking: India thanks Oman for rescuing 24 Indian nationals after their ship was hit by the US Navy

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

"Many Western countries have put out advisories recommending women don't travel alone in India. That is sad and it is a reflection of a deep cultural failing in our country.." says Shashi Tharoor in Thailand

[भारत समाचार | Bharat Samachar @bstvlive]

🚨 BIG BREAKING 🚨

⚖️ इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट का ऐतिहासिक फैसला

🔴 'शांति भंग' में निर्दोषों को जेल भेजने वाले पुलिस अफसरों पर गिरेगी गाज

🔴 अवैध हिरासत पर ₹25,000 प्रतिदिन मुआवजा

🔴 दोषी पुलिस अधिकारियों की सैलरी से वसूला जाएगा जुर्माना

🔴 8 दिन अवैध हिरासत में रखने पर पीड़ित को ₹2 लाख मुआवजा

🔴 हाईकोर्ट बोला- व्यक्तिगत स्वतंत्रता सर्वोपरि

🔴 बिना कानूनी आधार 24 घंटे से ज्यादा हिरासत अब पड़ेगी भारी

🔴 पूरे यूपी में लागू होंगे हाईकोर्ट के नए दिशा-निर्देश

🔴 प्रयागराज पुलिस कमिश्नर को 14 सितंबर तक अनुपालन रिपोर्ट देने का आदेश

#AllahabadHighCourt #UPPolice #BreakingNews @CMOfficeUP @dgpup @Uppolice

[ABP News @ABPNews]

बिहार विधान परिषद चुनाव के लिए नामांकन दाखिल करने के बाद बिहार के स्वास्थ्य मंत्री निशांत कुमार ने हाई कोर्ट मजार पर चढ़ाई चादर.

#BiharPolitics #NishantKumar #ABPNews

[World Cup HQ @WorldCup26HQ]

🚨 World Cup group stage schedule in full:

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

You probably have no idea who Salim Kumar is, but every Indian should read all about him today.

Salim Kumar was a Malayalam actor who passed away on Saturday night in Kochi at the age of 56. If you don't watch Malayalam cinema, strap in because his story is one of the most remarkable careers Indian cinema has produced, and it deserves to travel beyond Kerala.

He came from nothing. Born in North Paravur, a small town in Ernakulam, into a family that struggled with money. Government school. Graduated from Maharajas College.

So, no film connections, no family wealth, no shortcuts.

He started as a mimicry artist with Kalabhavan, a performance troupe in Kochi that has been the launchpad for dozens of Malayalam actors. Stage shows, comedy routines, television spots.

He was funny in a way that was impossible to ignore, the kind of performer who could make a room laugh in an instant.

His first film was Ishtamanu Nooru Vattam in 1997, a small role nobody remembers. For years he played supporting parts & background comedy.

Then the 2000s happened. His role as Mattancherry Mammathu in Satyameva Jayathe gave him his first real recognition, and after that the comedy roles started coming fast.

Pulival Kalyanam. Thuruppugulan. Kunjikkoonan. Marykkundoru Kunjaadu. If you grew up in Kerala in the 2000s, his face was in half the films you watched. He became the comedian audiences showed up for, the one whose scenes people replayed and quoted at family gatherings.

What separated him from most comedians was precision. He did not rely on volume or slapstick. He used his face, his body, his pauses.

He could get a laugh from the way he blinked. Directors started writing characters specifically for him, because they knew he would take whatever was on the page and make it three times funnier than they imagined.

For over a decade, he was the biggest comic face in Malayalam cinema.

Then came 2010 and a film called Adaminte Makan Abu.

A quiet, small-budget film directed by Salim Ahamed. The story follows an aging Muslim couple in a Kerala village whose only dream in life is to go on Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

They save every rupee. Things keep falling apart. The film is about their dignity, their patience, and their faith through one disappointment after another.

Salim Kumar played Abu. The man who owns nothing except his wife and his belief, and holds onto both with everything he has.

There is no comedy in the role. No punchlines, no funny faces, no playing to the gallery. It is the complete opposite of everything audiences had ever seen him do.

The entire performance is built on stillness, restraint, and pain carried quietly behind the eyes.

He won the National Film Award for Best Actor for it. That is the highest acting honour in Indian cinema. The film was also selected as India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards (Oscars) that year.

In one role, Salim Kumar went from "the funny guy from Malayalam films" to one of the most respected actors in Indian cinema.

He simply disappeared so completely into a character that you forgot you were watching a comedian at all.

He followed it with more serious work. Achanurangatha Veedu, which won him the Kerala State Award. Traffic, still considered one of the finest ensemble films in Malayalam cinema. Perumazhakkalam.

Each time, he proved the National Award was not a fluke. The man had range that most actors who only do drama cannot match.

Unfortunately, Salim Kumar suffered from liver cirrhosis, a condition he said was hereditary in his family and not related to alcohol. His brother had the same illness. He underwent a liver transplant a few years ago. He tried naturopathy. He talked about all of it openly, without shame, without self-pity.

He kept working between treatments. He kept being funny. He kept showing up, even when his body was failing him.

He was also fearlessly outspoken about politics and social issues, which in any film industry can cost you work. He did not care. He said what he believed and lived with the consequences.

He passed away Saturday night at a hospital in Kochi. He was 56. The Kerala government bore the funeral expenses and gave him police honours.

The Chief Minister paid homage personally. Mammootty, one of the biggest names in Indian cinema, mourned him publicly. Thousands of people lined up at the North Paravur Town Hall on Sunday to say goodbye.

350 films in three decades. A National Award for Best Actor. An Oscar entry. A career that started from mimicry stages and ended at the very top of Indian cinema.

The reason most of India does not know his name is because Malayalam cinema, despite being one of the best film industries in the country, still does not get the national attention it deserves.

Actors like Salim Kumar live and work in a language bubble, and their stories rarely cross over the way a Bollywood career would.

This is a loss for everyone who never got to watch him. A man who came from poverty, made millions laugh, then proved he could make them cry just as hard, and fought his own hardest battle with utmost dignity.

If you watch one film after reading this, make it Adaminte Makan Abu. It is a masterpiece.