a student of the past. drawn to history, art, movement, music, people, places.

Delhi, India
Joined February 2011
nabila retweeted
So many opinions on what conditions will irreparably damage one’s life at [arbitrary age], when, if you are kind and curious about the world, and you keep trying, you’re really doing just fine
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north campus was Life and all else has been a painful simulation ever since
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what we wearing for Eid al-Kirk guys
so excited for my first kirkaversery
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Im obsessed with this video. Opening with a sexy lady thinking ok what’s so groundbreaking about a sexy lady dancing in a restaurant. Then Doraemon comes and it’s like oh that’s odd. Then it pans to the twink and I’m gagging. The hunk is the cherry on top
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nothing could have prepared me for the tree
I was gonna film Mickey, but there was this crazy tree so I had to zoom out
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Gujarat cops (accompanied by Delhi police) came to journalist Ravi Nair’s home over a story he did with The Washington Post on Adani. An FIR has been lodged against Ravi, but not The Washington Post, based on a complaint by an Adani Group staffer. The police took away two of Ravi’s phones, his son’s laptop, and the laptop and iPad of a colleague who happened to be at home and is not an accused in the case. The cops had a judicial magistrate’s order. Refused to give hash value of the devices
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nabila retweeted
Naxal is slowly becoming like paneer in our lingo. You can add any prefix to it and come up with a few dish. Urban Naxal, Dimaghi Naxal, Mughlai Naxal, Kadhai Naxal.
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I love how real the Jaipur Nagar Nigam website is. Yes. This is the official website.
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“Much had already been written by Indian historians by this time on subaltern resistance. I was becoming more interested in ordinary lives which flare into extraordinary deeds, which cannot be classified as open resistance to power” scroll.in/article/861929/how…
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मुझे प्रो सरकार की क्लास में होने का मौका मिला था। पूरी क्लास भरी होती थी। कभी प्रोफेसर की तरह नहीं आए। हमेशा संकोची और सवालों से घिरे छात्र की तरह क्लास में आया करते थे। अपनी क्लास के आगे विनम्रता से खड़े हो जाते। इतिहास का कैनवस गहरा होता जाता था, विद्वता के प्रवाह के बीच व्यंग्य के छोटे-मोटे पड़ाव से अचानक पता कर लेते थे कि क्लास का ध्यान है या नहीं। ध्यान हटा तो व्यंग्य भी मिस किया और लेक्चर भी। सुमित धीरे बोलते थे। जानकारी का रेंज हिमालय की तरह फैला हुआ था तब भी ख़ुद को कभी थोपा नहीं। हाव-भाव से पता नहीं लगने दिया कि हम एक महान इतिहासकार की कक्षा में बैठे हैं। जिनकी कक्षा से निकल कर पहले ही कई छात्र बड़े इतिहासकार बन चुके थे और हमारी कक्षा के बाद के कई छात्र बड़े इतिहासकार बने। सुमित पढ़ाने के तरीके में गांधीवादी थे। लोकतांत्रिक। सुमित का छात्र होना ही मेडल के जैसा था। डीयू में सुमित, सुनील, ज्ञान और शाहिद की क्लास का छात्र होना छात्र जीवन की यादों को सुखद बनाता था। देश ने एक शानदार इतिहासकार के साथ साथ बेहतरीन टीचर खोया है। ज्ञान के असीम भंडार के साथ धीरे-धीरे चलता हुआ, रोज़ पढ़ाने वाला प्यारा सा टीचर खोया है। छात्र जीवन में ऐसा शिक्षक हर किसी को मिले। उनकी समृद्ध अकादमिक जीवन यात्रा को सलाम।
Prof Sumit Sarkar never taught me. He had left DU much before my time. I got opportunities to interact with him during my PhD in Gottingen. He always welcomed new ideas. His writings, particularly The Decline of Subaltern Studies, has been crucial for my own work.
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How scared is this government? Eminent scholar Prof. Zoya Hasan has just been prevented from speaking on "Pluralism" at the Independence Day function of Sardar Patel Vidyalaya - by Delhi Police! 1/3
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not everyone can be in LA, someone has to hold it down in New Okhla Industrial Development Authority
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nabila retweeted
You’ll already be Suicidal and then it will be 80% Humidity Outside
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nabila retweeted
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
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That one moment in Industry when Yasmin realises
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nabila retweeted
After arresting Muslims for eating chicken biryani on a boat, Uttar Pradesh Police have now arrested a poor Muslim man for selling chicken biryani, and his shop has been bulldozed. What’s next? Will Uttar Pradesh Police start “encountering” people for eating chicken biryani?
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thinking about sad lesbian dad.
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