Senior international education professional. Most recently Director British Council 🇮🇳
London & Spain
Joined November 2013
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.@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! – at New Delhi, India
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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
tinyurl.com/wwtr524p
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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.
UNRWA has food, shelter, medical and other essential supplies outside of #Gaza - enough to reach hundreds of thousands of people facing the harsh winter.
This aid has been blocked by Israeli Authorities since March. Refusing to let it in is a choice – one that deprives people inside Gaza of the means to survive and recover.
UNRWA's 12,000 team members are working tirelessly inside Gaza. But letting the blocked aid in would enable them to multiply their operations massively.
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Two unique #Christmas celebration #Kolkata
1. Armenian Christmas, celebrated on 6 Jan by the Orthodox Church: tinyurl.com/3jbf4k57
2. Kestopur, an amazing Bengali Christmas in the eastern fringes of the city: tinyurl.com/yeyvvvfm
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🚨 🇮🇱 🇮🇪 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.
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Publication alert! Bengal Soulfully Yours
Hazarduari, the palace of 1000 doors. The prime attraction of Murshidabad's nawabi heritage
tinyurl.com/bdb9xsxj
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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)
tinyurl.com/5c58anhh
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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
Far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declared that about 100 Israeli doctors told him they were willing to administer lethal injections to Palestinian prisoners if executions were approved. The World Medical Association condemned the statement as “disgusting,” while major human rights groups and the head of doctors’ union rejected the proposed bill.
Ben-Gvir added: “We all came with this pin, one of the options to implement the death penalty law. There’s the possibility of hanging, the electric chair, and also anaesthesia. Since doctors said they won’t assist, I’ve received 100 messages from doctors saying, ‘Itamar, just tell us when.’”
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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.
tinyurl.com/3k6ehm3s
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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!
🔗substacktools.com/sharex/qGZ… by @ASE
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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.
#Gaza: UNSC Resolution 2803 violates the Palestinian right to self-determination & the UN Charter-warns @FranceskAlbs: Protection means lifting the blockade, ensuring humanitarian access, supporting Palestinian-led governance & guaranteeing right of return
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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A city over 5,775 years old was wiped out
live on air by a 77-year-old colonizer!
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Once again, @ScotNational puts the rest of the UK press to shame.
This is what journalism with moral clarity looks like.
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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
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🔥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.
BREAKING: Israeli jailers are torturing, smashing the teeth, attacking the body, of Marwan Barghouti - the Palestinian Nelson Mandela, the leader who can lead Palestinians and Israelis to a Just Peace (watch the video by Knesset member Ofer Cassif). Free Marwan Now! #FreeMarwan
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🇮🇱 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.
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‘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.
