Meher Mirza

Putting aside extreme imposter's to share this publicly. Why is a dream coming true quite so terrifying?

Breaking News: The US has asked permission from India to support a military asset that will be used to bomb Iran from Western India. In bureaucratic terms it means an interpretation of the LEMOA.

👉 Come. Speak. Save the Trees. Save #Pune's Future.@PMCPune Tree cutting/transplantation hearing #RFD #Forest The work near the @rammuladevrai is in full swing. The #damage 🕸🦚🦆🌳🦋 Date: Friday, 20th March 2026 🕒 Time: 3:45 PM 📍 Location: PMC Aundh Ward Office, Aundh, Pune

Iranians have created an artwork commemorating Zohreh Shahryari, a 34-year-old teacher who was killed in US airstrikes on the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, killing more than 150 Iranian schoolgirls. She was pregnant. "Madam Teacher," the illustration reads

Ninety-nine years ago, the ‘norm of equality’ was declared in India for the first time. On 20 March 1927, a small municipal town near Raigad in Maharashtra, Mahad, became the site of this momentous event.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! ✏️ Shared Bylines is back for its sixth year. 📝 What: $3,000 scholarships and two industry mentors chosen by us based on your goals and interests 🗓️ When: Deadline is April 24, 2026 🌏 Where: More info online at sharedbylines.com/apply

Applications are open for Channel 4’s First Cut Pitch 2026! Pitch your documentary at Sheffield Doc/Fest for the chance to win a Channel 4 60’ commission, plus paid development and training. Deadline: 20 March Apply: channel4.com/4producers/fir… @Channel4 @sheffdocfest

NEW: LGBTQ+ publisher PinkNews is making its remaining reporters redundant, saying it wants to “move away from having a reporter-led newsroom” to a model where there “isn’t a need for the reporter role”

ICYMI: Pulitzer Center invites university educators and researchers in Africa to apply for its 2026 Impact Seed Fund, designed to aid in developing impactful educational initiatives on climate and environmental issues. 🗓 Apply by 19 April: shorturl.at/lcknr

The sealing of the office of United News of India (UNI), one of the country’s oldest and most respected news agencies, has raised serious concerns over press freedom. 📌 Staff members were forcibly evicted, with several not allowed to retrieve their personal belongings. 📌 Female journalists were manhandled by teams of Delhi Police. 📌 Some Delhi Police personnel were intoxicated while on duty. 📌 Two lawyers and Delhi Police personnel abused several individuals. @PMOIndia | @HMOIndia | @AmitShah | @DelhiPolice | @CMODelhi | @gupta_rekha | #UnitedNewsOfIndia | #UNI | #PressFreedom | #JournalismUnderThreat | #MediaFreedom | #FreePress | #UNIUnderAttack

Dhabas and roadside eating places are shutting down since they have no means to cook and feed. Hoards of workers and owners are rushing back to their native home creating situation similar to Covid crisis.

At the frequency with which India's wild animals are being killed and its forests obliterated, points to one ominous fact. Their supposed guardians are willfully being criminal. A reality, which will cost the country dearly.

Protests have erupted across the country, with tens of thousands of people coming out onto the streets, signing petitions online, and campaigning for the withdrawal of the proposed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026.  Ashna Butani and Abhinay Lakshman report on the outrage of trans communities, who say that the Bill violates their fundamental right to gender self-identification ✍️@al_lakshman and @ButaniAshna thehindu.com/news/national/…

#Rajasthan has Tigers & Leopards. It also has quite a few meso-carnivores about whom we actually know little & perhaps care little. They are elegant animals, performing the roles of a consumer as well as seed disperser. Misunderstood and facing severe threats from habit destruction and poaching, here is the first of them - Indian #Wolf Canis lupus ssp. pallipes. It was a loveliest of Diwali mornings when we sighted a small pack somewhere in central Rajasthan. @dharmkhandal @wildwithwolves @GobindsagarBha1 @rameshpandeyifs @ForestRajasthan @IshanDhar

#ThoughtForTheDay Pigeons get called sky rats. But birds like these once carried messages through gunfire when every radio failed. And the part most people miss is this. For thousands of years humans relied on pigeons to move information faster than any technology available at the time. Their homing instinct is so precise that a trained bird released hundreds of miles away can still navigate straight back to its loft. That simple biological skill made them invaluable in war. During World War I and World War II, armies deployed hundreds of thousands of pigeons. When telephone wires were cut and radio signals failed, commanders often had only one reliable way to send a message through chaos. In 1918 a Pigeon named Cher Ami carried a desperate note from trapped American troops in the Argonne Forest. The bird was shot through the chest and lost part of a leg during the flight but still delivered the message, helping stop friendly artillery fire and saving nearly two hundred soldiers. Today their descendants wander city sidewalks, pecking quietly for crumbs. Most people see a nuisance. History once saw a lifeline with wings.

In Tehran, residents are making traditional New Year’s meal (herb rice and fish) to hand out to rescue workers.

Excited to be a resource person for “Vajrasuchi: A workshop on Social Justice through the lens of assertion” to be held from 2-7 June 2026 at Sambhaavnaa Institute for Public Policy, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, along with co-tavellers in the anti-caste movement like Bhanwar Meghwanshi, Ravikant Kisana, Du Saraswathi and others. Individuals, particularly from marginalised and gender-diverse backgrounds, are strongly encouraged to apply. Link: sambhaavnaa.org/programs/vajra…

SHE HAS A NAME!!!!!!! Eva Ramón Gallegos successfully eliminates HPV

Protest in Pune on 22nd March!!!!

If anyone in Chennai is interested in co-organizing a samizdat screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab, please let me know via DM. I've a copy of the film and am happy to lease a projector, but am looking for a space for the screening.

📢 We are hiring! UNESCO is looking for a Associate National Project Officer - Education to join its team at the UNESCO Regional Office for South Asia in New Delhi.