Madiha Tariq

Interested in the world: in all passionate, soul-crushing ways. Anthropology @AshokaUniv

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

Excited to share my essay for @epw_in where I write about all things cities - memory, modernity, history, planning and resistance. There are bits about Delhi's urban (and epistemic) politics and eight lines of poetry at the end because why not!

https://t.co/DsOLCN4pCL

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@the_revolter_ What do you mean? I'm a 21 year old Kashmiri student trying to give back to my community by writing a small thesis on its public spaces. I'm a researcher, I have never promised empowerment. I was born, raised here & I live here. What agenda could I possibly have?

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@OnaizaD So excited! I didn't grow up reading a lot of Kashmiri literature despite growing up here, and I cannot wait to make up for it in all small & big ways!

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

This Sunday, you all must read @Thurka149 's compelling case on why the ethnographic imagination remains indispensable in the age of big data & solutionism.
https://t.co/45xVfLOeTh

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@AalokDThakkar Lit & the World, Monsoon '26?

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Kashmir had hosted its first international cricket match in October 1983: India versus West Indies. Despite competing against the reigning World Cup champions, the visitors received unexpected support and applause from the crowd.

The game was marked by boos and insults hurled at Kapil Dev and the rest of the Indian team. This atmosphere eventually escalated into a protest, with some men trespassing and vandalising the pitch during the innings break. Nevertheless, the match was completed with West Indies winning, in a home away from home, by 28 runs. Coincidentally, the men accused of vandalising the pitch during this international match were acquitted 28 years after the commission of the alleged crime. As I was to realise, Kashmir and cricket always oscillated between this oblivion and notoriety, ailments that summarise the world I stepped into in 2014.

Read the essay by T Altaf on the story of an incomplete cricketer in Kashmir: https://t.co/kEkwTGaZNO

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

Somewhere in Srinagar today.

We shall meet again, in Srinagar,
by the gates of the Villa of Peace,
our hands blossoming into fists
till the soldiers return the keys
and disappear...

- Agha Shahid Ali

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@KumbayaJ70 @vid_ocq @makai_tchzot @_Caged_ Oh, wow! Where is this? I would love to visit sometime soon!

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

For my UG thesis on #Srinagar's cafes, I'm looking to talk to cafe owners & people, esp. young women, who visit cafes to work or chill (alone & w friends). If you would like to share your experiences or have any leads, I would love to meet (both offline/online) you. Pls share!

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@vid_ocq @makai_tchzot @KumbayaJ70 @_Caged_ Thanks, yay, that's very helpful! I hate to ask this but could you all please DM? I am not able to text you currently! Would love to learn about your experiences in the cafes here. Cheers!

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@savageslothrop Thanks Aparichit! Looking forward to your work.

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@X4666892960729 Lovely, thanks for commenting! Could we connect in DMs? I'm not able to text you currently!

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@NoumanQadri @slalaikumx Bilkul chapegi! Also, all conversations are anonymous by default, unless you want it otherwise! : ) Please DM if you are up for a chat or have a cafe story to share!

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@parasnsingh95 @Traluk Thanks, that would be helpful! Sending you a text!

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@Sankalpa_007 They're absolutely welcome too. : )

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@priteshkgupta @appadappajappa Thanks, Pritesh! I'll surely do!

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@savageslothrop Thanks! And yes, that's certainly one part of it, especially in non-metropolitan cities which are rapidly urbanising.

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@Taciturnnnnnnn Thanks! I would love that! Could you please DM? I'm not able to text you.

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

@meranahimann Thanks! That's helpful! : )

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

In a series of our upcoming work on Zomi-Chin refugees in Delhi, we are happy to share the first article with Eur-Asian Border Lab. Pradyun & I discuss the bordering of ordinary life & and what research can (and cannot) do amid such precarity.

https://t.co/IYRKgMKwdZ

[Madiha Tariq @madihatariq_]

Every year this resurfaces as proof of Woolf's genius. It might be more honest to read it as an indictment of all we call human. We can't inherit the beautiful language of her ending outside & minus the world that failed her.

[Emma Woolf @EJWoolf]

Virginia Woolf took her own life 85 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜