Fatima Khan
@khanthefatima
People, Politics, Ground Reports | Journalist currently @columbiajourn | Previously @TheQuint @ThePrintIndia | Fellow @AsiaSpeaks | DM for leads.
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
New spin. This is what happens when you give immense power to a government functionary. How is a BLO determining Bangladeshi origins? Identifying people based on language, clothes or are people confessing to BLOs that they are from Bangladesh ? #Bihar
During house to house visits during SIR in Bihar, a large number of people from Nepal, Bangladesh and Mayanmar have been found by BLOs. Their names shall not be included in the final list to be published on 30 Sep 2025 after proper enquiry is conducted after 1 Aug , ECI sources
We didn't speak out against that ghastly camps in Assam and now they are building quasi camps everywhere. I cannot hate those Delhi liberals who vociferously campaigned for NRC in Assam enough i hope you all pay for your sins one day
Amidst nationwide crackdown against ‘suspected foreign’ nationals, 100s of Bangla speaking migrant workers detained in Gurugram in what police calls “holding centres.” I and @alishan_jafri report from the ground.
Two years ago when Bengali Muslim workers had to flee Gurugram after the Haryana riots, RWA associations were upset because there was “no one to pick up our garbage now”. thequint.com/amp/story/news…
Major media channels are covering this mass exodus of Bangla speaking migrants as a garbage crisis, how residents of Gurgaon’s high rises are being troubled by the unbearable stench, how it can escalate into a health crisis. Not a word on the right of lesser citizens.
Will media apologise to Tablighi Jamaat for the false Corona Jihad campaign? Sadly many who jumped the gun include those who claim to be unbiased. Pls watch and share youtu.be/Bsgey4ZboHo?si…
All the privileged Bengalis in Indian academia and media must speak up and protest this harassment of Bengalis. You think this is about poor Muslim Bengalis right now but it doesn’t take too long for bigoted stereotypes to start hurting everyone from the community. Speak up.
Every single day Bengalis being attacked for speaking their mother tongue. Bangla is an offical languages of this country, the second-most spoken, and as recently as 2024 was accorded classical language status. And today it is being weaponized against the country's own citizens
Every single day Bengalis being attacked for speaking their mother tongue. Bangla is an offical languages of this country, the second-most spoken, and as recently as 2024 was accorded classical language status. And today it is being weaponized against the country's own citizens
7 Bengali Muslim men hailing from West Bengal, detained by Gurugram Police on the suspicion of being “illegal” Bangladeshi immigrants. One family alleged that two people who went to the police station to visit a detainee were also detained. ✍🏻 @the_hindu
7 Bengali Muslim men hailing from West Bengal, detained by Gurugram Police on the suspicion of being “illegal” Bangladeshi immigrants. One family alleged that two people who went to the police station to visit a detainee were also detained. ✍🏻 @the_hindu
🚨Break: Remember the 2017 Varnika Kundu stalking and harassment case? The Haryana government has appointment prime accused Vikas Barala as Assistant Advocate General. Out on bail, Vikas is the son of BJP MP Subhash Barala. @TheQuint ++
The 12 men faced torture and lost 19 prime years of their lives. The prosecution produced sketchy evidence. The CDR was lost (read destroyed). The special MCOCA court still convicted them—five of them were facing a death sentence. The least they deserve is an apology. But here…
#WATCH | 2006 Mumbai Train Blasts: Bombay High Court acquits all 12 accused. Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said, "This is very sad, instead of giving them the death penalty, they have been acquitted. This shows that the case we presented was not foolproof, it had…
VIDEO | 2006 Mumbai train blasts case: Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui and Shaikh Mohammad Ali Alam arrive at Mumbai airport. Two of the three prisoners convicted in the 2006 Mumbai suburban train bombings were released from Nagpur Central Jail on Monday evening following their…
This is how lives are destroyed by incompetent investigators.
VIDEO | 2006 Mumbai train blasts case: Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui and Shaikh Mohammad Ali Alam arrive at Mumbai airport. Two of the three prisoners convicted in the 2006 Mumbai suburban train bombings were released from Nagpur Central Jail on Monday evening following their…
The Kerala Story: 91-year-old Muslim cleric Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad and his silent efforts to save Nimisha Priya Beyond hate peddled against Kerala lies the tale of humanity, harmony, willingness to transcend faith to save the life of a young mother. thesouthfirst.com/kerala/the-ker…
India Today’s graphic from 5 years ago.
IMPORTANT Delhi HC Quashes FIRs against Tablighi Jamaat members in Covid cases, many of whom were even arrested in Delhi 5 years ago . HC: no evidence that Tablighi members were Covid carriers or tested Covid positive en masse. HC: Tablighi members entered the building BEFORE…
IMPORTANT Delhi HC Quashes FIRs against Tablighi Jamaat members in Covid cases, many of whom were even arrested in Delhi 5 years ago . HC: no evidence that Tablighi members were Covid carriers or tested Covid positive en masse. HC: Tablighi members entered the building BEFORE…
After 3 days at sea, they stood him on the edge of the vessel with a life vest, untied his hands, uncovered his eyes and gave him a final order at gunpoint: “Jump into the water,” Shah remembered the officers saying. “If you look back, we’ll shoot you.” washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
THREAD After tennis player Radhika Yadav's alleged murder by father Deepak, users like @HPhobiaWatch were quick to link her death to her role in a music video with a Muslim singer. Some justified the brutal murder & others said that the Muslim man should have been killed as well
#HTExclusive Delhi’s residential corners, hotels, community halls, & even unopened police posts are quietly doubling as detention centres for undocumented Bangladeshi migrants. @htTweets visited five such centres & found how Bangladeshis were holed up. @KarnHT and I report.
Umar Khalid reviews 'The Many Lives of Syeda X' from Tihar jail where has been for 5 yrs without a trial. He writes, 'Dixit’s conceptual clarity is...reminiscent of flavours one gets while reading works of Marxist historians like Eric Hobsbawm.' thewire.in/books/many-liv…
I feel like we need to take a moment and reflect on the fact that we are now at a place where this stuff can be said with face, name, institution, et al in full public view. And be identified as "centrists". This is the level to which Islamophobia and misogyny are now part of us.