Basharat Peer
Staff Editor . Author, A Question of Order, Curfewed Night, Former , Screenplay: Haider
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‘Jungle Prince of Delhi’: Amazon to Develop New York Times Story as Drama Series, Mira Nair to Direct
Joe Otterson - Variety 4d 1 tweets
Amazon has landed the rights to develop the 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist New York Times story and podcast “The Jungle Prince of Delhi” as a drama series, Variety has learned. The story,…
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Basharat Peer Wonderful news! to direct 's story "Jungle Prince of Delhi" as a series for Amazon. 4d
One Biscuit, a Billion Stories
The Atlantic 30d 12 tweets
Tracking India’s lockdown through the country’s favorite comfort food
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Basharat Peer Beautiful and brilliant essay by tracking India's lockdown by following the production of Parle-G biscuits in 30d
The Longest Lockdown
Nytimes.com 32d 5 tweets
Life in India-controlled Kashmir has been punctuated by military curfews and general strikes for three decades.
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Basharat Peer Beautiful and brilliant graphic report by on coming of age with lockdowns in Kashmir in 32d
What the Great Pandemic Novels Teach Us
Nytimes.com 81d 17 tweets
People have always responded to epidemics by spreading rumor and false information and portraying the disease as foreign and brought in with malicious intent.
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Basharat Peer "The disease is foreign, it comes from outside, it is brought in with malicious intent. Rumors about the supposed identity of its original carriers are always the most pervasive and popular." Orhan Pamuk in on literature and epidemics. 81d
The Rise of a Hindu Vigilante in the Age of WhatsApp and Modi
Wired 90d 12 tweets
India, the world's largest democracy, has also become the world's largest experiment in social-media-fueled terror.
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Basharat Peer "India, the world's largest democracy, has also become the world's largest experiment in social-media-fueled terror."--Brilliant and brave reporting by in 90d
Intellectuals Arrested as More Protests Sweep India
Jeffrey Gettleman - Nytimes.com 207d 9 tweets
A well-known biographer of Gandhi was among those detained on Thursday, as opposition to a new citizenship law continued to roil Indian cities.
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Basharat Peer “The person who will walk the path of Hitler will die the death of Hitler!” Anger, energy and opposition to the government are growing by the day. 207d
The Silence Is the Loudest Sound
Nytimes.com 333d 10 tweets
The Indian government has confined about seven million Kashmiris to their homes and imposed a complete communications blackout.
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Basharat Peer ‘If Kashmir is occupied by security forces, India is occupied by the mob.’ Arundhati Roy on Kashmir in 333d
Modi’s Majoritarian March to Kashmir
Nytimes.com 340d 4 tweets
For India’s new rulers, Muslim-majority Kashmir was the perfect place to announce the rise of India’s new muscular nationalism and unabashed majoritarianism.
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Basharat Peer "The erasure of the residency rights in Kashmir has set the ball rolling for changing the demographic character of the state, the Indian version of the Israeli policy of settlements or what the Chinese have done in Tibet, says in 340d
Distress and Defiance in Tehran
Nytimes.com 388d 3 tweets
The devastating impact of American sanctions has left many Iranians feeling they are already at war.
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Basharat Peer " “Well, isn’t this already war?” he asked, without much rancor. It’s a question many Iranians ask themselves these days. " Iranian novelist Salar Abdoh writes from Tehran in 387d
The Massacre That Led to the End of the British Empire
Nytimes.com 457d 1 tweets
The events at Jallianwala Bagh, in the Indian city of Amritsar, marked the beginning of the resistance against colonial governance.
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Basharat Peer The Massacre That Led to the End of the British Empire . on Jalianwala Bagh in 457d
The India-Pakistan Conflict Was a Parade of Lies
Nytimes.com 495d 10 tweets
The internet contributed to the culture of mendacity in a fight between nuclear neighbors.
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Basharat Peer Farhad Manjoo, our tech columnist, on India, Pakistan and lies. 495d
The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War
Nytimes.com 499d 5 tweets
Both countries share responsibility for reducing Kashmir to a ruin and destroying generations of lives.
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Basharat Peer "India and Pakistan.... share the responsibility for reducing Kashmir to a ruin and destroying generations of Kashmiri lives."--Been a while but had to write this for the paper 499d
Hashtags for War Between India and Pakistan
Nytimes.com 502d 4 tweets
Social media has been taken over by warmongers in the nuclear-armed neighbors.
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Basharat Peer I and many other young Pakistanis have called upon our country to release the captured Indian pilot as a gesture of our commitment to peace, humanity and dignity. We cannot be a subcontinent of orphans. in 502d
How Bangladesh Made Abortion Safer
Nytimes.com 563d 8 tweets
The government’s effort to help Rohingya victims of wartime rape has lessons for the world.
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Basharat Peer How Bangladesh confronted mass sexual violence by Pakistani military during the 1971 war and started a safe abortion services program that continues today in the camps for the Rohingya 563d
In India, Farmers Face a Terrifying Crisis
Nytimes.com 822d 4 tweets
The Indian governments and elites have ignored the deepening rural economic distress.
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Basharat Peer "Successive governments have connived at and hastened the corporate hijacking of Indian agriculture, privileging the profits of a few over countless livelihoods." As farmers protest in Delhi, read this by in earlier in the year 591d
If the Regime Comes Here, Everyone Will Be Targeted
Nytimes.com 671d 9 tweets
Residents in Idlib, Syria, describe the fear of chemical gas attacks, losing their children and becoming refugees.
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Basharat Peer Where Death Comes From the Sky Must read essay by and in 671d
3 Million People With Nowhere to Go
Nytimes.com 673d 28 tweets
President Bashar al-Assad’s forces are about to attack Idlib, the last rebel-held province in Syria. Fear of mass slaughter is increasing.
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Basharat Peer Must read this really powerful essay by in on Syria abd the absence of justice. 674d
The Erdogan Supremacy
Nytimes.com 748d 1 tweets
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, faces no elections for five years, and few checks on his power.
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Basharat Peer "Mr. Erdogan has no elections to face for five years and he can avoid social conflict in the coming days." on the morning after the Turkish elections in 748d
As Water Runs Low, an Indian Town Blames the Men Who Work the Pipes
Nytimes.com 757d 21 tweets
The “key men” of Shimla, who control the water flow to each neighborhood, were subjected to so much wrath during a drought that they were given police protection.
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Basharat Peer Some 600 million Indians face high to extreme water scarcity conditions, with about 200,000 dying every year from inadequate access to safe water, according to the report. Terrifying report on India's water crisis 753d
I Survived a Sarin Gas Attack
Nytimes.com 1193d 9 tweets
In August 2013, the Assad regime’s forces dropped chemical weapons on my hometown. It changed my life forever.
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Basharat Peer Reports of more chemical gas attacks in Syria. Read ’s account of surviving a sarin gas attack 827d