Aamish Askari

Doctoral Student/Higher Education- Ohio University

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Dekh bhai, ap positivist ho ya constructivist, reality ko ghnta faraq nahi prne wala. Is liye jitna jaldi ho skey thesis likh lo.

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Bourgeoisie academics be picking on any term but "class struggle". Conflict theory. Social movement. Contentious politics. Nice try professor.

Class will remain relevant simply because theoretcians continue to ignore it.

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Love when job applications ask about the salary expectations. It allows me to chose between not being hired and being exploited for my labor.

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جو دہلی میں نکلے ہیں وہ پاکستان کے ایجنٹ ہیں۔ جو آزاد کشمیر میں نکلے ہیں وہ بھارت کے۔ ۔۔۔ مار اوئے ڈپٹی۔

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Men not growing out of the shadows of their fathers is the reason why we are all stuck in a never ending cycle of decay.

Loving the heterosexual patriarchal figure our mothers lived with/under is OK, but it is important to recognize him as a human.

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The world would be a better place if we stop looking for

1- Male opinions on feminism
2-White opinions on racism
3- Ranbir Kapoor's opinion on nepotism in Indian cinema

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Universities: We want to inculcate values of critical thinking that might help question the dominant power structures

Visiting/adjunct faculty and Grad Students: Great! How about starting it off by paying us the living wage.

University: You are fired.

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Sometimes a grad school is about learning words like relationality, intertexuailty, positionality, subjectivity and my favorite, citationality

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She: Whats one skill you are proud of?
He: Hr saal Jinnah aur us k puppies ki photo daal k secular or liberal saabit krta hu.

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Colonialism didn't just steal land. It rewrote the story of nature. It taught us to see Earth as something to dominate, not something to belong to. The fight for decolonization is the fight to unlearn this lie and rebuild our relationship with this planet.

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We are waiting for the day when 'et al' will rise from the ashes and claim their rightful place because everybody knows they have done most of the work

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Healing looks different for different people. There is no set path to it. But one necessary condition for all the times is the courage, courage to make an assessment who you truly are. Recognizing that you are not the only one suffering and then building solidarities

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Courage is that enabling virtue that makes all the other virtues possible. But if your are coward, you ll never know what love is. Because you ll never know what vulnerability is. What intimacy is. What opening yourself is.

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My favourite part of the writing is cleaning the room.

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Sabaq phir prh labor ka, surplus ka, workers ka, peasants ka.
Lia jaaye ga tujh se kaam revolutionary qayaadat ka.

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Class, gender, race, ethnicity
Tm mjhey comrade kiyun nahi kehti.

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Student protests in Bangladesh:
These guys are creating a revolution. Solidarity with Bangladeshi students.
Students protests in QAU:
Yawr. In ko apni education pe focus krna chahiye. Universities should be non political. Anti state log ghuss gaye hain universitiyon mein yawrr.

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Sanbhaal kr rkho yeh jo firqe tmharey haiN
Marx bhi hmarey hain, Hegel b hmarey haiN

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If student is a consumer and faculty nothing but a subaltern class of cheap labor, then why not call university a shopping mall?

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Quaid-i-Azam is the only university where the architecture defies all conventional notions of a university. There are no gates, no hard barbed wires, no boundaries and hence no distinction between the campus and the community.