Tarannum Kamlani

Senior Producer, CBC Radio’s The World This Weekend. Views expressed here are my own, retweets are not endorsements, etc etc.

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

"The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible."
Alan Rickman, in 2008

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK @tweeter_anita So you could argue that she was in fact seen as a potential heir as opposed to a child who was unlikely to be anyone of importance…

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK @tweeter_anita Hello! Question — I’ve read that both Victoria’s father Edward Duke of Kent and William Duke of Clarence were ordered by their mother Queen Charlotte to give up their mistresses and marry because the Prince Regent’s daughter Princess Charlotte died in childbirth?

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

@DalrympleWill @SamDalrymple123 Well, he learned from the very best. Looks like I’ll have to make room on my Dalrymple-heavy bookshelf for Dalrymple The Younger soon! Mabrook!!

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

@NotJustTudors @sixteenthCgirl HUMAYUN! Not Hanuman!!! Come on!

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"There is such a thing as truth. History has to be based on factual evidence." The brilliant @Sathnam talks about the "monstering" of @nationaltrust in the right wing press & the vile attacks he and @DavidOlusoga have suffered for speaking out on imperial history @JLFLitfest

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

Yep, exactly this ⬇️

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

Mary Renault, legend.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

‘People in the past were not just like us. To pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.’

Mary Renault (who was a great historical novelist precisely because she understood this so viscerally)

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

Last couple days has been weird. Eerie. It felt like many of us were transported back to when were kids having to tell or fight people for why they can’t say certain things without repercussions.

I can’t lie, it was kinda lonely still. Not enough people around me said much.

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

@Ash_Stewart_ St John’s bakery, Broadview Ave

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

The colour blue (al-azraq) in Islamic tradition often signifies the impenetrable depths of the universe, and turquoise blue is thought to have mystical qualities.

For Ramadan, here are 24 beautiful Islamic buildings & Mosques, designed using the colour blue…

A thread…

[star•gyal @beequammie]

HAPPY EARTHSTRONG MI G @celinedion

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

This was a terrific episode of this excellent podcast:

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

Why is France on fire?

And, with more city-trashing to come, will Macron’s legacy be that France’s next government will be from the far-right, drastically changing modern Europe?

@lewis_goodall is on the ground for this @TheNewsAgents special.

https://t.co/f2rUPjsJMQ

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

@ShebaSid Thank you for sharing!

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

@wakeamkira Ugh. Thinking of you.

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

So good:

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

@beequammie @CBCTheNational I remember this!!

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

There are too few prominent people in football or in English public life in general who stand up like this, and humiliations like this will ensure there are far fewer. Hours ago we just saw the AfD, the German far-right, applaud the UK Govt’s policy on small boats. Now this.

[Tarannum Kamlani @tarannumsaurus]

This just about made my day

[Halima Khan @HalimaNyomi]

This superhero is a retired GP in Limehouse East London

I’m in tears because she’s saying she learned Bengali in the 80’s to understand her patients because there were no interpreters 😭

This is British pride 🇬🇧 she should be a household name 😭❤️