Mann Gera

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[Anubhav Singh @lucifer_damned]

My two cents on the CJP is - it lacks the ideology, vision and the organization to take on the Indian state & the rot within Indian society. It talks of social justice but they themselves are unaware of what they mean by it. A social vision w/o uttering “caste” or “Muslims” ?

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Voice of Hind Rajab to release in India on June 19th.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

बशीर बद्र की शायरी आपको हमेशा एक ख़ास एहसास में डूबी मिलेगी। उस एहसास को सीधे शब्दों में बयान करना भी मुश्किल है - सिर्फ़ उपमाओं से ही समझाया जा सकता है। सूखे फूल, पुरानी इमारत की गिरती दीवार के बीच से उगता पीपल का एक पत्ता, पहले प्यार में सकपकाया सा एक शर्मीला लड़का, पढ़ते पढ़ते सो गए हाथों में औंधी पड़ी कोई किताब।

अधिकतर महान शायरों के (कम से कम कुछ) कलाम एक तरह के over-confidence या self-importance/deprecation से गुज़रते मिलेंगे। ग़ालिब, मीर, फ़ैज़, अमृता, फ़िराक़ - शायर की शख़्सियत का हिस्सा ही है ख़ुद को दुनिया का केंद्र बनाना। और ये point of व्यू शायरी को बेहद ताक़त देता है।

लेकिन बशीर बद्र साब की शायरी अक्सर इससे दूसरी दिशा की लगती है। ‘मैं’ लगभग ग़ायब है और जहाँ है भी, बहुत हल्के से बात करता है, जैसे कहीं दूर से आवाज़ आती हो।

इसलिए ज़मीनी प्यार भी रूमानी लगता है और निजी दुख पूरी दुनिया का।

उनके जैसा ना कोई पहले था ना आगे कभी होगा। अलविदा उस्ताद!

[୨ৎ @feralballads]

don’t use ai to write. use childhood trauma like a real poet.

[Sakshi Mendiratta @_sakshi_m13]

I will never respect people who are politically neutral

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Just do things

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

While it is deeply disappointing to see a decisive victory for the BJP in West Bengal, there can be no sympathy for Mamata Banerjee and her party, whose authoritarian and repressive political conduct over 15 years created the conditions that paved the way for the BJP’s rise.

[✬ @TeeAirRa_]

Still more people to meet. Still more people to love.

[Gurmehar Kaur @mehartweets]

You cannot tell the story of modern India without Raghu Rai, and you cannot speak of Raghu Rai without telling India’s story. He was one of those rare souls, born once in many decades, with a purpose written into his bones, almost as if divinely pushed to live it

He was our nation’s visual conscience for six decades. And for me, in a brief meeting, he was the catalyst that made me have faith in having faith—in believing in something bigger than self, in letting that belief open a door to the magic of something far greater than us.

May he rest in peace, and may we all take a moment to celebrate this big, beautiful, extraordinary life. ✨

#raghurai

[M @nocturama_]

The final stage of grief is doing a master’s degree actually

[Zion @zionszzn]

I can’t explain it but I’m very bold and very shy at the same time.

[masha @masha_slp]

she’s the girl who is always excited when the sky is in pretty colors

[Jordan Barger @PersonalRecords]

I love having a divine experience and it’s just bread butter cheese and coffee

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

i need it so bad it hurts

[323 @Ggod323]

I genuinely dont remember half my life

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

My four-year-old refers to his imagination as "my magic," and this is why children are the best.

[Vaishna Roy @vaishnaroy]

What a liar.