Asher Syed

@dashersyed
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Liberty. Equality. Fraternity. Misanthropic Humanist. Urdu and Farsi poetry enthusiast.

دیکھتے ہی مجھے محفل میں یہ ارشاد ہوا
کون بیٹھا ہے؟ اسے لوگ اٹھاتے بھی نہیں

Dekhte hi mujhe mehfil meiñ, ye irshaad hua,
Kaun baitha hai? Ise log uthaate bhi nahiñ.

~ Daagh Dehlavi

#urdupoetry

Ghazal rendition by Mehdi Hasan
https://t.co/oe4CI8PNw4

daagh dehlavi: uzr aaney mein: mehdi hassan داغ دہلوی: عذر آنے میں: مہدی حسن

The Poet: Mirza Khan Daagh Dehlavi مرزا خان داغ دہلوی was born in 1831 in Delhi. His father passed away when he was very young, following which his stepfathe...

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Microblogging site the @Mastodon suspends Assam Police instance on its platform, says cops not welcome because it wants its community to feel safe and secure.

Hey @Birdsite say what, high time for you to grow a spine too and follow what you preach!

#MastodonRocks

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/mastodon-suspends-assam-police-instance-says-cops-not-welcome/articleshow/72088741.cms

Mastodon suspends Assam Police instance; says cops not welcome | Guwahati News - Times of India

GUWAHATI: Microblogging platform Mastodon has suspended Assam Police instance saying cops are not welcome because it wants the community to feel safe .

The Times of India

Since today is Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday, let us remind everyone that it was Nehru who was the original architect of the Indian occupation of Kashmir.

With the help of his friend and viceroy, Mountbatten, he first illegally took over Muslim-majority Gurdaspur, which was a land bridge to Jammu and Kashmir.

He then sat back and did nothing as Hari Singh massacred over 200,000 Muslims in Jammu.

Only when tribals (who had ties to Jammu Muslims) from the newly carved Pakistan invaded Jammu and

I've also imported the Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Urdu and other new translations from Crowdin. If you would like to see those translations completed, you can contribute here:

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

Please look at that page before asking for new languages to be added! They are probably already there!!

Mastodon — Translation Project on Crowdin

Help us translate Mastodon and bring it to the world!

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@Deepsealioness Because inditoot refused to moderate hate speech, we have "silenced" them on our end. This means they cannot follow our users automatically, you instead get the choice to approve/reject, for your safety.

I asked Syeda if it would be better to forget it all, to not speak about the many riots she has survived. “No, we should remember it,” she replied. “We should be able to tell our children the stories, so they will know how to protect themselves.”

Poorna Swami on the riots that changed the course of Gujarat’s political history: https://bit.ly/2kQsWz0

Riots that changed the course of Gujarat’s political history

The 1969 riots emerged as a kind of beginning—of intense religious division, a culture of violence, and the early rise of Hindutva in Gujarat.

زاہد نہ کہہ بری کہ مستانے آدمی ہیں
تجھ کو لپٹ پڑیں گے دیوانے آدمی ہیں

Zahid na keh buri, ke ye mastaane aadmi hain,
Tujh ko lipat padenge, diwaane aadmi hain.

~Dagh Dehlavi

Rendition by Malika Pukhraj.

#urdupoetry
https://youtu.be/YcTiutwc6OU

daagh dehlvi - zahid na keh buri sung by malika pukhraj

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Me "Alexa Tell me a Joke"

Alexa "It is Historical Judgment"

Meanwhile on bird app, sanghis going mad without us and asking for Indian Govt to ban Mastodon because They made a rule no casteism or advocacy of casteism
@BhavanaVarun I don't think they could ban @Mastodon even if they wanted to. They could block mastodon.social on ISP level, but there are over 2,000 other ones, and they couldn't stop new Mastodon servers from popping up.