#Colonial

Detention Solidarity Network

detsolnet

Here’s a master thread of a ten day curation on #AntiTerrorLaws & #UAPA led by @GuneetKaurAhuja & @aimanjkhan who brought to fore critical inputs from Sahana Manjesh, Parijata @mrinpinshar, @SarimNaved

Louz

louzlapoetesse

Je n’aime pas le hijab mais je soutiens les femmes qui le portent/je pense que le hijab est un vestige du passé mais je soutiens les femmes qui le portentA

Jerome

readJerome

Today on Military History Sunday, we will talk about the Battle of Adibo (1896). The battle was fought between the Germans and the Kingdom of Dagbang in a town called

Paddy Docherty 3.5%

paddydocherty

A thread about #COVID19, colonial violence, and how the English class system is wrecking the country. #coronavirus #ToriesOut #history #SystemChange #JohnsonMustGo This chap is Hugh Trenchard, or “viscount” Trenchard*,

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

1/ #HistoryKeThread: Part of the reason the colonial government found it hard to tackle Mau Mau was because oathing ceremonies took place in utmost secrecy. 2/ This is an account

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

Prompted by the shocking falsehoods in Planet of the Humans, this thread asks why so many people in rich nations claim that the biggest environmental problem is #PopulationGrowth. The conclusion

Indu Makkal Katchi (Offl)

Indumakalktchi

"Do they kill themselves beneath the wheels of the Juggernaut? Do the people of India throw their children into the jaws of the crocodiles?". These were some of the routine

Rupinder

RupinderKW

I first came across the term tawaif with films Pakeezah & Umrao Jaan. The beauty in the art, dance & music made me want to know more. This Urdu word

Candy ♀

Canduh_

Please encourage some of the young ones who just cleared high school to venture into Technical and Vocational courses. There’s huge demand for the skilled trades and they can easily

Vincent 罗

VincentL98

“Hilang dari dunia ini” - a non-Malay’s beginner’s guide to Ketuanan Melayu. To begin understanding Ketuanan Melayu, you must first understand why some Malays fear “disappearing from this world”. 1/35

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

THREAD: #Covid19 exposes grave political miscalculations behind decades of western geo-strategic relations with China. We sleepwalked into a supply-side over-dependency, believing China would embrace democratic norms. We’ve been played. China

Abhijit Chavda

AbhijitChavda

Spot-on. Let me illustrate this with an example.Take Narasimhan, Reich et al.'s paper titled "The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia". It suffers from a number of glaring issues.https://twitter.com/ProfVemsani/status/

Swat Swag

NaPoha_

Good on Nabeel sab for apologising.The Sher Khan character is basically an extension of the same Kiplingesque colonial noble- savage construct of the wild frontier which in the post partition

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Like many religions, miracles and miracle-workers are an important part of Islamic cosmology and history. Legendary accounts tell of holy figures breaking the laws of nature and working wonders to

उम्मीद + أُمِّيدْ + امید

OmidFarz

About every month there's an attack on the Shia communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan, meanwhile no Shia has ever put on a suicide vest and walked into a Sunni mosque.

Cynical 🇪🇺

Prodactiv

Heroes of #Libya The straggle against #Italian Fascism,the use of religion as tool, the Heroes that defy human pain to give their fellow humans F R E E