Mahtab महताब مہتاب
@MahtabNama
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Multilingual #Journalist | 🖋️on Politics, Law, Literature, Media & Human Rights | Founder, Urdu Book Club & #UrduInPublic | #RedInk Awardee
Joined November 2008
کسی بھی جیل کی دیواریں اتنی اونچی نہیں کہ وہ آزاد خیالوں کو دبا سکے۔بول کہ لب آزاد ہیں تیرے . No prison is big enough to contain free speech. स्वतंत्र विचारों को कभी बेड़ियों में नहीं जकड़ा जा सकता।बोल की लब आज़ाद हैं तेरे. ਹਿੱਕ ਦੇ ਖੁੱਲ੍ਹੇ ਵਿਚਾਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਹੜੀ ਬੇੜੀ ਅੱਜ ਤਕ ਡੱਕ ਸਕੀ ਹੈ.
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I am told TV anchors are asking : why protesters are asking for #Azadi, what from? I m right here n can hear them shouting : Bhukmari se Aazdi, Manuwad se Azadi, Sanghwad se Azadi, Berozgari se Azadi, Tadipar se Azadi, Bhedbhav se Azadi, Godi Media se Azadi .#JamaMasjid #Protest.
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Difference of Opinion? You call this Opinion, #Journalism? If yes, then you are nothing but a supporter of Indian version of #RadioRwanda. You are partner in crime. Shame on you!. #HateCrime #RohitSardana
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उनके लिए जो शाहीन बाग को लेकर बहुत 'चिंतित' थे! #jantacurfew22march. Pic 1 : People observing Janta Cerfew in Gujarat . Pic 2 : #ShaheenBagh protest site today. #coronavirusindia #5Baje5Minute
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People are asking : Is he the Prime Minister of India?. Yes, he is the PM of India elected by majority of the people/majority community of this country!. And, this is not the first time he has said all this about Muslims. His entire career is based on anti-Muslim hatred!. Period.
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Lest we forget that the Supreme Court took two years to grant bail to journalist #SiddiqueKappan. Meanwhile, he lost his mother. He was beaten up in jail. His health has deteriorated. He would need months, if not years, to restart his journalism.
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चौरसिया जी ये नहीं बताएँगे कि उस 'जिहादी' का नाम प्रिंस पांडे है! मने कह रहे हैं.
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This one is from across the border, by one of my favourite illustrators, #MarriaKhan . #SayNoToWar #Pakistan #India #PeaceNotWar #Abhinandan
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Why #MaulanaAzad 's picture is missing in this advertisement by Congress (@INCIndia) 🤔 #Congress | @kharge
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If #ArifMohammedKhan and #ZameerUdiinShah are scholars then I declare myself a Nuclear Scientist! Mane kah rahe hain. .
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My new role/job : Managing Editor (Media Fellowships Programme), @NFI_India. Wish me all the best!.
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Welcome to the #NewIndia!. In case you can't read the script, it reads : Mein Bhi #Godse! %. Photo Credit : Sunil Mehra. #DelhiNama
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On any given day I would prefer to be a #MadarsaChhap than an IIT Nationalist ! Mane kah rahe hain. .
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Here's why I respect @laluprasadrjd 👇 His loud and clear message (as CM) to the people of #Bihar on the issue of Ramjanambhumi - #BabriMasjid issue.
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Leading Islamic Organisations condemn #Udaipur killing and demand #JusticeForKanhaiyaLal.
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Reacting to #DarulUloomDeoband Mohtamim's statement, #ShabanaQureshi, a protester at #ShaheenBagh told @thewire_in : "Ye mazhab ki ladai nahi hai jo hum unki baat maan lein. Ye ladai Samvidhan ko bachane ki hai. Jab tak CAA NRC wapas nahi hota, hamari ladai jari rahegi."
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अब ये अफ़वाह कौन फैला रहा है कि #हिंदी में #WhatsAppUniversity को "#विष_विद्यालय" कहते हैं ?!.
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Let's be clear : when it comes to demonising Muslims, #DainikBhaskar is not very different from Dainik Jagran! Mane kah rahe hain. .
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#JumaMubarak friends! . Udhar diye paise wapas mangne ka jadeed technique 😉 Mane kah rahe hain.
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Replug : For those who conspired to see #ShahidAzmi dead, he might be long dead and gone. But for hundreds of Muslim (and non Muslim) youth across the country, Shahid abhi bhi zinda hai (Shahid is still alive) !.
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My Latest for @BBCUrdu : Short profiles of four anti-CAA protesters. #ShaheenPraveen (Jharkhand), #RehnaSultana (Assam), @NabiyaKhan11 (Delhi) and #ShibaMinai (Hyderabad). Read full story here :
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Happy to share that my story, "#TomAlter: The ‘Angrez’ Who Wrote His Memoir in #Urdu" ( has won the #RedInkAwards2021. Thank you @mumbaipressclub for this honour! Special thanks to colleagues at @thewire_in for your support.
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My Latest : In which I explain How Lt Gen (retired) and former vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) #ZameerUddinShah fell into the #Hindutva Trap . #AyodhyaCase #Justice .
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📣 Happy to share that I have been elected as a Member of the Management Committee, Press Club of India (@PCITweets). Would like to thank all of you for your support and votes. #PressFreedom Zindabad ✊
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This man is the president of News Broadcasters Association (NBA)!. And the 'joke' is :. "The NBA believes in editorial standards ensuring objectivity, neutrality, fairness and accuracy in reporting.". #RajatSharma #media #FarmLaws #KisanKiBaat
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.@laluprasadrjd Zindabad the, Zindabad hain aur Rahenge! #LaluPrasadYadav Zindabad, Fasivaad Murdabad ✊.
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I am NOT neutral, I am with #Farmers ! . मैं तटस्थ नहीं, मैं किसानों के साथ हूँ !. میں غیر جانبدار نہیں، کسانوں کا طرفدار ہوں!. ਮੈਂ ਨਿਰਪੱਖ ਨਹੀਂ, ਕਿਸਾਨਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਹਾਂ।.
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Members of #Sikh community sanitised #JamaMasjid of #Delhi during the #lockdown today. Pictures via @PDWKB. #Ramadan #RamzanTheMonthOfBlessings #Eid #humanity
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I was in #Kathmandu for a week. And d highlight of d trip was a visit to d mazar of Begum #HazratMahal.It is located near d #Nepali Jama Masjid. While it's centrally located,it's still a task to track it down. For d people living next to it aren't aware of its existence either.
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#KumarSauvir is a Lucknow-based journalist who furnished the bail bond for Kappan’s release. When asked by the judge : “Do you know #SiddiqueKappan? ”. Sauvir’s answer, “I do, as a journalist- we share the same dharma”. #JournalismIsNotACrime.
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📢 Politicians, especially those in power and 'mourning the death of the poet' should note that the best tribute to #RahatIndori would be to scrap #CAA, #NRC !.
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“This person has a history of abusing Zubair,” @free_thinker told Newslaundry, referring to Jagdish Singh. “He has called him a ‘jihadi’ and all sort of things in the past.” A search does reveal vile jabs that Singh has taken at @zoo_bear. ~ @sighyush .
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Even in today's #Amristar, #Urdu (اردو) is not totally out of fashion/use! Mane kah rahe hain. #PunjabNama #Shahmukhi
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A personal but very pertinent piece by @alishan_jafri : "This is not the story about how I feel as an individual, it’s about so many other young Indian Muslims whose social media feeds look like a visitors’ diary outside a busy graveyard.". #MustRead .
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A full page Solidarity Statement by concerned farmers, activists and citizens of the word, published in the New York Times as an advertisement. #FarmersProtests #DishaRavi
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I took this picture 3 years ago in Bilaspur while she was leaving for court. Over the years I must have met hundreds of activists, lawyers and trade unionist but none like #Sudha ji. She is one of inspirations n will always be one no matter who says what. Release #SudhaBharadwaj
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Good #journalism exists not because of some big shots but the countless nameless faceless non- #English stringers and local reporters. #WorldPressFreedomDay.
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The #PressClubOfIndia ,in its statement yesterday demanding release of journalist #SiddiqueKappan , had expressed its fear that given d current scenario,he might be booked under anti-terror laws. Today the UP Police does d same by booking him u/s 14 & 17 of UAPA. Cc @thewire_in
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Lalu ji (@laluprasadrjd) is in hospital these days. His commitment for secularism and communal harmony is uncompromising. Here's one proof 👇 Praying for his speedy recovery 🤲. #babrimasjid #6Dec1992
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Perhaps, the most poignant point about today's situation : "Afsos is baat ka nahi ki Dharm ka dhandha ho raha, Afsos is baat ka hai ki padha likha bhi andha ho raha hai." #ShaheenBaghProtest
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"sabhi ka khoon shamil hai yanah ki mitti mein /kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai ". Rest in peace, #RahatIndori sahab!
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.@svaradarajan, Ye aap apni gadi ke peeche likhwa lein 😉. For those who can't read the script : "buzurg gadiyon ka ehtaram karen" meaning Respect the old vehicles!
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How low can the BJP IT Cell stoop? No depth is low enough. :) ~ @MeghnadBose93. #WestBengalViolence #FakeNews
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"My name is #SudhirChaudhary and I am not an #Islamophobe ". Here is the proof 👇Mane kah rahe hain.
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The funds for #MaulanaAzad Education Foundation were brutally cut down from the last allocation of Rs 90 crore to 0.01 crore this year.~ A report by @sanashakil_TNIE.
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Now you can read @mandeeppunia1 's report from Tihar Jail in #Urdu on @TheWireUrdu. #FarmersProtest.#JournalismIsNotACrime .
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Meanwhile, Urdu author n translator Yaqoob Yawar has also announced that he will return the Award. “I am saddened by the passing of the CAB. Since I am old and can’t do much in terms of physical protest, I have decided to return the award in protest. " .
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Presenting Veg Chicken Do Pyaza ! Mane kah rahe hain. Photo Courtesy : Shabina Tauqueer
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📸Iftar arrangements (outside Okhla Vihar Metro station, #Jamia Nagar) by Battery Rickshaw wallahs. "Hum sab Battery (Rickshaw) walon ki taraf aap sabhi ke liye #Iftar ka intezam kiya gaya hai. Allah qubool farmaye," reads the note. #Ramzan2024
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Nargis Nasreen, a Class 12 student, secured 62% in her CBSE exams despite losing her house and books to a fire in the Delhi riots of February, 2020. A video story by @shekhar_tiwarii. via @thewire_in.
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📣 Joint statement by Press Club of India (@PCITweets) and Indian Women's Press Corps (@iwpcdelhi) on the FIR against journalists (Zakir Ali Tyagi and Wasim Akram Tyagi) in Uttar Pradesh. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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.@imtiaz_jaleel ki kamyabi Musalmanon ki kamyabi nahi balki #Aurangabad ke awam ke secularism ki kamyabi hai. ~ @asadowaisi #MaharashtraAssemblyPolls #ElectionNama #Aurangabad.
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Just realised, all (three) directly #Congress ruled states (Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan) have non-Upper Caste chief ministers. 1 Dalit, 2 OBC. Mane kah rahe hain. .
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11 years ago, on this day, Advocate #ShahidAzmi was killed in cold blood and his killers are yet to be punished. Shahid's life and work was an embodiment of the following words of Barrister Roy Black.
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Bihar : Professor Assaulted in Motihari For Being Critical of VC's 'High-Handedness' via @thewire_in.
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Asif Iqbal Tanha, Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal outside Tihar Jail after their release. Photo by Mandeep Punia
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Qurbani ke alawa Namrood e waqt ke khilaf awaaz buland karna bhi uswa e Ibrahimi ka aham hissa hai. Mane kah rahe hain. #EidMubarak . ईद मुबारक. عید مبارک.
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📣 #PCIElections2023 : Delighted to share that I have been elected as Joint Secretary of the Press Club of India (@PCITweets). Thank you so much for your vote and support!. #DefendMediaFreedom
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.@asadowaisi while paying tribute to #Gandhi : Dil mein #Godse ki Mohabbat aur Zuban par #Gandhi ka naam. Ye nahi chal sakta. .
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Allama zinda hote to khudkhushi kar lete. Mane kah rahe hain!
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aaj #hdfcbank atm se #Urdu (#اردو) language option choose karke paise nikalne ka saubhagya prapt hua! Mane kah rahe hain. Thank you @HDFC_Bank for providing this facility. May your tribe increases!
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I appeal to the people of India to defeat the sons of #Godse . Save India of #Gandhi, Save Baba Saheb #Ambedkar 's Constitution. ~@asadowaisi. #Aurangabad #MaharashtraAssemblyPolls #ElectionNama #MaharashtraNama.
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“I will continue my fight against draconian laws. They kept me in jail even after I got bail. I don’t know who’s benefiting from my being in jail. These two years were very tough, but I was never afraid," said journalist #SiddiqueKappan upon his release. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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While the anti-Minority violence in #Bangladesh is sporadic, in India on the other hand, it has been a routine affair that had gained normality a long while ago. Hence, anyone equating the two is essentially manufacturing a false equivalence. Beware of them. Mane kah rahe hain. .
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.@manojkjhadu sir ki kitaab (Garam Hawa ke Daur mein Insaaf aur Jamhooriyat ke Sarokar. Translation by Osama Faizaan ) Mabadaulat tak pahunch gayi hai. Shukriya Zafar Ullah bhai and AlterNotes Press.
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12 बैंको का 4 बैंको में विलय करने के निर्णय के बाद मेरी सरकार से गुजारिश है कि रिपब्ल���क टीवी , ज़ी न्यूज , एबीपी न्यूज , आज तक का भी विलय कर देना चाहिए. ~ @anuragbhaskar_. #BankMerger #TV.
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The Uttar Pradesh police have not even informed his family about his (#SiddiqueKappan) arrest under UAPA, says wife. ~ A report by @Shahina_Nafeesa .
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बड़े बुज़ुर्ग कहते थे : भात, दाल, चोखा, कभी न देगा धोखा! मने कह रहे हैं.
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IPS officer @AbdurRahman_IPS has resigned from his service protesting against the #CitizenshipAmmendmentBill2019!
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"wahi qatil, wahi shahid, wahi munsif thahre /aqraba mere karen qatl ka dawa kis par". #BabriMasjidDemolitionCase #BabriMasjid #BabriVerdict
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