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Staying in touch with the trees to keep up with the times
And drawing lessons from them to carry along
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Mariyam Haider

March 2024

Can simplicity and innocence of love help us survive the real world?
A question I returned to after watching Laapataa Ladies
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Mariyam Haider
A letter by a former KNC student
And finding hope through educators who continue to make their voices heard
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Mariyam Haider

February 2024

Recognising the many meanings of Shab-e-Barat 🕯️
Observing the night of lights and destinies in a changing world
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Mariyam Haider
Can anyone ever be completely fearless?
Thoughts on fears, flowers, freedoms and barbed wires
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Mariyam Haider

January 2024

What’s common between a bowl of zarda, a ginger cat and hot jalebis?
Scenes from a Republic Day weekend
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Mariyam Haider
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Annapoorani depicts the many hurdles a woman has to cross to achieve her career dream, within and outside her family
Too many spoilers, because well the movie has been taken off Netflix
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This poem is not a poem
And other things one sits with on a Monday morning
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Mariyam Haider

December 2023

The radical need for friends to become informed safe spaces
Safe space is not only a place where I want to feel heard and seen with my vulnerabilities, it is also a place where my radical hope for the future…
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Mariyam Haider
To demonstrate to ourselves and grieve collectively
Recognising the work of gathering for the self and the world
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Mariyam Haider

November 2023

A call towards rehumanisation must make us think deeply about protecting childhoods
In Palestine and everywhere else in the world
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Recognising our entry points into a cause
A quick check-list into ways we can connect with Palestine and the world better
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