Barbara Wickham

Senior international education professional. Most recently Director British Council 🇮🇳

[Barbara Wickham @wickhambarbara]

.@inBritish is delighted to announce the launch of India/UK Together Season of Culture and Academy Award winner @aarahman as our Season Ambassador. Let the Season commence!

[Rangan Datta @rangan_datta]

Somapura Mahavihara, commonly known as Paharpur Mahavir, is a Pala era Buddhist Monastery in Rajshaghi division of #Bangladesh. It is one of the largest Buddhist Monasteries outside the Himalayas. #UNESCO World Heritage Site

https://t.co/E4nD47yFU4

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

We will never forgive or forget…

This level of suffering is unconscionable - yet our “leaders” offer pathetic platitudes at best

I genuinely don’t know how they live with themselves.

[Rangan Datta @rangan_datta]

Two unique #Christmas celebration #Kolkata

1. Armenian Christmas, celebrated on 6 Jan by the Orthodox Church: https://t.co/x7FsemqJKQ

2. Kestopur, an amazing Bengali Christmas in the eastern fringes of the city: https://t.co/gRbPt7qN6i

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

🚨 🇮🇱 🇮🇪 The ex-President of Ireland exposed the Israeli embassy for SPYING on Ireland and leaking his communication with Iran.

All lsraeIi embassies do this. All of them should be closed and their ambassadors expelled.

[Rangan Datta @rangan_datta]

Publication alert! Bengal Soulfully Yours

Hazarduari, the palace of 1000 doors. The prime attraction of Murshidabad's nawabi heritage

https://t.co/2ovxiUpdxD

[Rangan Datta @rangan_datta]

Back again in online publication with Soulful Bengal, an initiative of @TourismWb, BCC&I and @ITCCorpCom

A journey through Bengal's churches ( a compilation of a dozen churches across West Bengal)

https://t.co/ahOAbJbEjg

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Ben-Gvir is an affront to humanity. He is more brutal, more racist than the leaders of apartheid South Africa. In any civilised society he would be in jail, rather than a Minister. No civilised country would maintain links, let alone support, a government of which he is part

[Rangan Datta @rangan_datta]

New #blog post alert!

#Bhubaneswar Temples

Exploring the temples east of Bindu Sagar. This region boasts over half a dozen temples connected by a maze of lanes and bylanes.

https://t.co/L13sZHfOVH

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israel hasnt been suspended from the UN, other in'l fora, UEFA, FIFA, FIBA or cultural events. Genocide continues because it is normalised.
And then, just like that, accountability in the form of a European boycott begins. Eurovicious no more!
🔗https://t.co/R2dcGqNCnp by @ASE

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Shocking but true.
With its security-first, capital-driven model of foreign control, Res 2803 puts Gaza in the hands of a puppet administration, with the US as the new manager of an open-air prison, further crushing Palestine's right to self-determination and any path to peace.

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

A city over 5,775 years old was wiped out
live on air by a 77-year-old colonizer!

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Once again, @ScotNational puts the rest of the UK press to shame.

This is what journalism with moral clarity looks like.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

1) Israel kidnapped a 13-year old Palestinian boy
2) Israel raped the 13-year old Palestinian boy in prison
3) @DCIPalestine alerted the US government
4) The US government asked Israel for an explanation.
5) Israel declared @DCIPalestine a terrorist entity, raiding their offices

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🔥BREAKING!
What Israeli forces are doing to 66 yo Marwan Barghouti (a symbol of unity) -accounts speak of torture, sever beating, broken ribs and teeth- reveals a depraved mindset and system, brutalising defenseless individuals as a way to break the spirit of an entire people.

[SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs]

🇮🇱 A new level of collapse for the Israeli army:

An Israeli soldier was filmed digging up a grave in the village of Masiliah, south of Jenin, after storming the area, sealing it off, and imposing a full lockdown.

What kind of occupation sinks this low?
This isn’t an army facing fighters…
it’s an army waging war on the dead.

When fear reaches the point of digging up graves,
you know the occupation is too weak to confront the living
and too brutal to respect even those beneath the soil.

One clip says it all:
this isn’t a military force—
it’s institutional madness.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

‘I have not a political reason but a highly personal reason [for speaking out]. I do not want to see my school bully become prime minister’

Huge kudos to @PeterEttedgui. This is a hugely powerful & sobering interview.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

This picture is from 15 years ago.

It never started on Oct 7.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta is due to face his tenth legal action brought by UK Lawyers for Israel, which have cost him over £100,000.

He told Declassified: "The aim is never to win. The aim is financial and mental attrition".