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Omair Ahmad @omairahmad.bsky.social · Jun 26

The success of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should have been celebrated in India, but the fact that it was largely ignored tells you how small the country has become under a bigoted "India First" government.

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Why Did India Miss the Zohran Mamdani Story? - The Wire

Indian lack of interest in a campaign in which an American of Indian origin will possibly govern one of the most important cities in the world is part of the diminishing of Indian vision and influence...

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · May 30

“Will anyone believe that a writer could no longer write because he had nothing to eat?”
~ Hussam Marouf

Hunger That Defeats Language arablit.org/2025/05/30/h...

Hunger That Defeats Language

“The hunger I’m experiencing now is not what I imagined. It’s not what you imagine, dear reader. It’s not just an empty feeling in your stomach. It’s a numbness that s…

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · May 25

Yes, sad timing. Hope you’ve been well.

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · May 24

The film is set on the Line of Control in Kashmir. It’s a haunting, tense and thrilling adaptation, with superb performances.
Rudi Dharmalingam sparkles as the captain.

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · May 24

The language of humanitarian concern, the invocations of Palestinian suffering and trauma, mean nothing if these words aren’t followed by real, immediate action. So far, it’s all been a cruel and heartless charade.

Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · May 24

No. There just isn’t enough pressure on Israel. Don’t buy the statements and platitudes. If there were real pressure, the genocide would have stopped. Western powers haven’t failed to stop #Israel, they have chosen not to.

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · May 23

Trailer for The Collaborator, film based on my debut novel, is out. You can watch it here ~
youtu.be/zwI4JepXLOo?si…

The Collaborator (Official Trailer)

YouTube video by Iris Indie Global

https://youtu.be/zwI4JepXLOo?si…

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · May 21

“Soldiers and artillery guns were stationed across valleys and rivers where previously people had strolled from this village to that. Families were split, brothers and sisters divided.”

My essay for @bloomberg.com on why Kashmir needs more than a pause in the violence.

Kashmir Deserves a Lasting Peace

Three generations have grown old since India and Pakistan started fighting, with civilians on both sides living under the forever-looming threat of war.

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · May 18

remembering the tens of thousands of Tamils massacred by the Sri Lankan state, those who continue to be denied justice, dignity and freedom, and those who fight every day for truth and accountability 🪔 #Mullivaikkal

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · May 17

Kashmir deserves a lasting peace, writes novelist Mirza Waheed, whose parents and grandparents lived through skirmishes in the same conflict between India and Pakistan

Kashmir Deserves a Lasting Peace

Three generations have grown old since India and Pakistan started fighting, with civilians on both sides living under the forever-looming threat of war.

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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast @fnfpodcast.bsky.social · May 15

Novelist and journalist @mirzawaheed.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about brewing tensions between two nuclear powers: India and Pakistan.

@literaryhub.bsky.social

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Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

Novelist and journalist Mirza Waheed joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about brewing tensions between two nuclear powers: India and Pakistan. Waheed, who was born in Kas…

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · May 11

My radio essay on the Line of Control and Kashmir for the BBC World Service. I reflect on borders, memory, and what the LoC means today. Listen from 06:08 onwards:

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BBC World Service - Weekend, Pakistan strikes back at India following airbase attacks

India-Pakistan tensions rise as Kashmir strikes spark fears of wider conflict

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · May 7

As tensions between India and Pakistan reach a peak in the aftermath of an attack on Pahalgam in Kashmir, will the Western powers step in to mediate?

Kashmiri writer @mirzawaheed.bsky.social responds.

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Apr 29

I wrote about the forever war between India and Pakistan and the silencing of Kashmir.

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A massacre has reignited the forever war between India and Pakistan – once more, Kashmiri voices are missing

The people of Kashmir have had little or no say in their future for as long as I can remember. This cycle must end, says novelist Mirza Waheed

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Ann Morgan @annmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 2

Episode 2 of RLF’s new COLLECTED podcast is out! What an honour it was to have @katemossewriter.bsky.social in the studio with @carosanderson.bsky.social Featuring work by @mirzawaheed.bsky.social, Aisha Zia, Polly Morland, Charlie Hill and Simon Robson podcast.rlf.org.uk/476-kate-mos...

Collected: The Podcast: #476: Kate Mosse, founder of Women's Prizes and bestselling author with Caroline Sanderson

The internationally bestselling author and co-founder of what is now the Women’s Prize for Fiction delves into the Royal Literary Fund’s sound archives, using the recordings to reflect on the highs an...

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Jan 17

Out of Empire

Tahmima Anam and I will talk about ‘Out of Empire’ on 19 January. This conversation is a part of the South Asian Literary Association’s 2025 Annual Conference. I hope you can join us from where you are. Details are in the poster.

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Dec 31

Perhaps the only worthwhile New Year’s resolution is to reflect on the year of genocide and ask ourselves what we can do in our small ways to stop it and hold those responsible accountable.

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Dec 28

About my new novel Maryam & Son. Out next year.

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Dec 15

Once upon a time in the Vaadi

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Kabir @historylad.bsky.social · Dec 12

This schematization presents Kashmir either as an exoticised pastoral escape or a symbol to articulate the idea of Indian nationhood. The representation invisiblizes the true political, social, and ideological state of Kashmiri natives.

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Why Bollywood Never Gets Kashmir Right

Almost without exception, filmmakers from the mainland pit the "good" secular Kashmiri against the "bad" ethnic Kashmiri Muslim.

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Dec 9

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Dec 8

One of the best books of the year. @tinhouse.bsky.social

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Dec 7

There’s something fundamentally wrong about screening a film in an Israeli settlement in the middle of a genocide.

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They’re Screening an Adaptation of My Novel in an Israeli Settlement, So I’m Boycotting It

Last week, more than 5,000 writers and publishers from across the world pledged not to work with “Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelm…

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Mirza Waheed @mirzawaheed.bsky.social · Nov 30

“I now realise that there are only two kinds of people in the world. People who are bereaved and those who are yet to be bereaved”

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‘I’m writing a memoir. It’s a pack of lies’: John Banville on a lifetime in books, bereavement, and the Irish love of words

The acclaimed novelist thought he had finished with ‘serious’ books. But now, at 78 and still grieving the loss of his wife, he has a new project on the go

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