Ismat Ara

Journalist @timesofindia | Author I Bylines @frontline_India @TIME @AJEnglish @TheWire_in @Firstpost @BBChindi @Newslaundry @The_Hindu | [email protected]

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

The most heartbreaking picture I took today. This man is willing to walk 495 kms till Kanpur, his home, from Delhi because he has no way to sustain himself here with his 3 yr old daughter. "Wahan peene ko paani toh milega," he says.

#TotalLockdown #CoronaOutbreak

[Brahma Prakash @bprakash2020]

Join us tomorrow at Midland Bookshop in Hauz khas

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

@abhisar_sharma Thank you so much! 😭😊🙏🏻

[Abhisar Sharma @abhisar_sharma]

Thanks @IsmatAraa . Looks promising and looking forward to reading this. Get your copy on line on

https://t.co/uHu9bq1YcW

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

“An ideological project to demonise an entire community.”

This is, in many ways, what Under a Saffron Sky is about. Thank you, @ashutosh83B sir, for reading and understanding the book so deeply. 🙏

[ashutosh @ashutosh83B]

Just finished this brilliant book by Ismat Ara. Book debunks many myths about Love Jihad which is part of an ideological project to demonise an entire community.

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

After a video of an elderly Muslim man’s skullcap being snatched during a procession in Etah emerged, police filed an FIR suo motu and identified six men, who were made to apologise publicly. Read my full report.

https://t.co/LcymikRLCR

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

What happens to a language when its cultural home begins to lose touch with it? In Lucknow, Urdu departments are struggling to fill classrooms even as the city continues to wear its “city of adab” identity. My report in today's @timesofindia
https://t.co/yadqbNKA9q

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

What happens to a language when its cultural home begins to lose touch with it? In Lucknow, Urdu departments are struggling to fill classrooms even as the city continues to wear its “city of adab” identity. My report in today's @timesofindia
https://t.co/yadqbNKA9q

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

Uttarakhand’s Waqf Board is rewriting the nikahnama to “align” it with UCC: No columns for 2nd, 3rd or 4th marriages, no conversion solely for marriage, halala banned, Iddat no longer mandatory, & only authorised clerics to be allowed to solemnise nikah:
https://t.co/6Ier7W9Uq0

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

Appreciation post for the Ladies toilet at the Delhi-Meerut Expressway Kashi Plaza toll. It was not only clean but also smelled of roses. As a woman on the road so often, this makes me too happy. 😭 @NHAI_Official

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

Uttarakhand’s Waqf Board is rewriting the nikahnama to “align” it with UCC: No columns for 2nd, 3rd or 4th marriages, no conversion solely for marriage, halala banned, Iddat no longer mandatory, & only authorised clerics to be allowed to solemnise nikah:
https://t.co/6Ier7W9Uq0

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

Delhi-NCR’s weekend exodus to the mountains is a reflection of our failure to make the city liveable.

People drive hours for what Delhi struggles to provide: shade, clean air, water, trees, quiet and somewhere pleasant to spend an evening. Could we build some of that at home?

Read:

https://t.co/TbDGTiqHJa

[Jagan @jaganshah]

@IsmatAraa Thanks for pointing out the troubling correlation, @IsmatAraa. And the larger point about the development footprint of an inhospitable mega urban region. Pollution, clutter, decrepitude make it ugly too. Since people won’t ‘fight’ for a better city, the ‘flight’ highway beckons

[we are all complicit @_mamamouchi]

@IsmatAraa Our communities are reluctant hosts because our CM wants to set new world records of most pilgrims, and most Kanwariyas every year.
Hotel Associations and Vyapar Mandals and priests also lobby against any capacity regulations.
We share the blame as much.

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

@zazeeshan0 And some phenomenon that made it look like that (cloudy and misty.)

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

Delhi-NCR’s weekend exodus to the mountains is a reflection of our failure to make the city liveable.

People drive hours for what Delhi struggles to provide: shade, clean air, water, trees, quiet and somewhere pleasant to spend an evening. Could we build some of that at home?

Read:

https://t.co/TbDGTiqHJa

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

@zazeeshan0 Thank you... It was too scenic!

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

"Every love story turned into a case file. Every complaint is a ticking clock under political scrutiny. Law and order and women’s rights are two of the main poll planks used by the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and so there is an image to be maintained."

https://t.co/8Zn93kXOa6

An excerpt from ‘Under A Saffron Sky: Inside India’s Crackdown On Love’, by Ismat Ara.

@PenguinIndia

#bookexcerpt

[Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa]

Caste may be absent from Islamic theology, but has shaped Indian Muslim society for generations, creating two puzzles for the upcoming caste census: the same community known by different names across regions, & where do these identities fit? SC/ST identities will come through drop-downs, but SC excludes Muslims on religious grounds, leaving the most marginalised Muslims within OBC self enumeration. Full report in @timesofindia

https://t.co/mEBGToKdkd

[Hasan🐦 @HasanLaparwah]

@IsmatAraa Muslim occupational castes that fall under the OBC category have adopted new, modern-sounding names. This is causing a problem because the earlier caste names were based on their traditional occupations, and society did not view these names favorably; discriminate with them