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Mirza Waheed

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Mirza Waheed

@MirzaWaheed

Writer. Maryam & Son, Tell Her Everything (Hindu Prize for Fiction, 2019), The Book of Gold Leaves, and The Collaborator. Rep: @AitkenAlexander

London

Joined February 2009

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Mirza Waheed
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Jan 22
My new novel Maryam & Son will be published first in India on January 26. It's a novel about motherhood, desire, surveillance and one woman's refusal to let the state dictate her story. If you'd like to spend time in Maryam's company, please preorder: amazon.in/Maryam-Son-Mir…
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Mirza Waheed
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Apr 8, 2020
Is India the only country that has responded to Coronavirus with Islamophobia? Yes.
Mirza Waheed
@MirzaWaheed
Nov 28, 2019
“A woman protestor applied salt on her face, to protect herself from the teargas smoke during a clashes that erupted after Friday prayers in Kashmir.(TRTWorld)” I’ll remember this photograph for a long, long time.
Mirza Waheed
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May 9, 2020
Rana Ayyub has taught the entire political leadership of India a lesson in empathy.
Mirza Waheed
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Aug 16, 2019
Hello world, more than 7 million Kashmiris have not been allowed to speak with their loved ones for 12 days now.
Mirza Waheed
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May 21, 2020
A country that wilfully destroys the homes of an occupied people is not a democracy. It’s a tyranny.
Mirza Waheed
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Apr 20, 2020
Kashmiri journalists are among the bravest in the world. In solidarity.
Mirza Waheed
@MirzaWaheed
Aug 10, 2019
I don’t think I’ve seen enough condemnation of India’s communication blockade in #Kashmir. It’s cruel, illegal, immoral, and reprehensible. No other country has deprived an entire people of their fundamental right to speak with their loved ones. I condemn it. Will you join me?
Mirza Waheed
@MirzaWaheed
Dec 10, 2021
What kind of bitter, unhappy, insecure person goes out of their house every week to stop someone from praying.
Mirza Waheed
@MirzaWaheed
Sep 4, 2020
I’ve been a journalist for more than twenty years and I can confirm I’ve never, not even in my nightmares, seen the kind of bonkers shit that’s broadcast in the name of news on much of Indian TV these days.
Mirza Waheed
@MirzaWaheed
Apr 20, 2020
This is one of Masrat Zahra’s most striking photographs. Great work. “A woman protestor applied salt on her face, to protect herself from the teargas smoke during a clashes that erupted after Friday prayers in Kashmir.” November, 2019.
Mirza Waheed
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May 5, 2020
Kashmir has a Pulitzer Prize.
Mirza Waheed
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Oct 1, 2019
A Kashmiri family on the front page of New York Times is just heartbreaking. “Crying in Pulwama for a detained family member”
Mirza Waheed
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Jan 22, 2024
You have to salute the dignity and strength of character of Indian Muslims who live with the daily torment of being treated like second-class citizens in the Hindutva state.
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