Mirza Waheed

@MirzaWaheed

Novelist. Journalist. Author of The Collaborator and The Book of Gold Leaves.

London
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Joined February 2009
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  1. Nov 10

    Reposting this for friends & family. That Trump chap caused a distraction. Is this the world’s first mass blinding?

    174 retweets 70 likes
  2. 13m

    "Shame on us all for not acting to stop the annihilation of eastern and its people..."

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  3. 24m

    Imagining those books coming out of that house is so interesting. What a mind.

    J.G. Ballard's house is for sale:
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  4. 4h

    Shilpa Shetty thinks reading Orwell's dystopic Animal Farm will help kids care for animals. Sigh!

    59 retweets 33 likes
  5. 15h

    Planet Earth is so brilliant. We saw just 2 locusts in Madagascar last year & thankfully they'd other things on mind.

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  6. 22h

    Not sure how to describe this interesting man. Genetic engineer or crony spiritualist? via

    40 retweets 34 likes
  7. 22h

    Not sure how to describe this interesting man. Genetic engineer or crony spiritualist? via

    40 retweets 34 likes
  8. Nov 25

    This is excellent, probably the best you'll read in the early days, from the Miami Herald on

    25 retweets 72 likes
  9. Nov 26

    Ed Balls O'clock is my favourite hour on British TV.

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  10. Nov 26

    The Pakistani edition of my study on honour killings in Upper Sindh: 'Honour Unmasked' is finally available in the OUP stores in Karachi

    248 retweets 567 likes
  11. Nov 26

    Means the dude's still not handed over his Twitter account to grown-ups.

    What does this even mean
    4 retweets 5 likes
  12. Nov 26

    Our excellent reporter in has been detained. We call for her immediate release.

    BBC Türkçe muhabiri , Şirvan'da gözaltına alındı
    374 retweets 127 likes
  13. Nov 26

    If you care about , please RT this.

    Our excellent reporter in has been detained. We call for her immediate release.
    32 retweets 9 likes
  14. Nov 26

    And now on to Hari Kunzru's new novel 'White Tears'. Hooked! [If HK sees this he might recognise Kashmiri wood-carved table. ]

    4 retweets 17 likes
  15. Nov 26

    "Everything involves standing in a queue." Good piece on the currency disaster in India.

  16. Nov 25

    Ah yes, our historic bonds. Remember when we played colonialism colonialism together?

    Enjoyed addressing students & staff at Government College about the deep & historic bonds between and
    54 retweets 63 likes
  17. Nov 26

    May tweet more on Fidel Castro later, but for now here's my thread. He was both hero & villain: it's worth understanding the complexity!

    Fidel Castro was a very controversial figure - but to understand him, you have to see him in context. I wrote this:
    102 retweets 106 likes
  18. Nov 26

    Oh, there's going to be so much bad history around Fidel Castro from right and left over the next few days. Suspect I'm going to be busy.

    43 retweets 90 likes
  19. Nov 26

    The Kashmiri Novel: Tales in a lost tongue

    12 retweets 8 likes
  20. Nov 26

    Fikr-o-Izhaar main hum hukm ke paband nahin Shayari hasb-e-hidayat nahin hogi hum se Iqbal Azeem

    5 retweets 19 likes
  21. Nov 26

    One of few 'balanced' takes on Fidel: why 'the revolution is what it managed to be and not what it wished to become'

    25 retweets 50 likes

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