Indrapramit Das

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I am a children’s teacher from Gaza
I have a child who was killed
I have a child whose hand was amputated
I have a child whose leg was amputated
I have a child who lost his mother and father
And I, the lost teacher
I need a helping hand
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This applies to all art.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif left these words for if he was martyred. I read them shared on Al Jazeera.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

It's beautiful having all these open windows to the imaginations of people from other eras. Wells' The Time Machine, for instance? Older than all our great grandparents. Would recommend in a heartbeat. Doesn't mean you'll always like what you see through those windows, but that's history for you.

This doesn't mean one *has* to read anything, including Asimov (only read a few of his shorts) or Heinlein (only read Stranger in a Strange Land, which I found mostly tedious with some fascinating bits/pieces). But reading older work with only enrich the new, as both a writer & a reader.

Personally I think reading old books ('classics' or not) is good, actually, as is reading new books, and you can and should read both, and not make a virtue out of not reading one or the other. Art is contiguous with history, and readers/writers should have an awareness of what came before.

Palestinian families like Ahmed's are being starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can:

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Unfortunately, my friends, I am being blocked continuously and without reason, just because I am asking for my family’s safety. If you can see me, know that I love you very much. I just hope that you support me and share this tweet with your friends. Thank you. 🍉

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Please help me to spread the word my friend Das 🙏🙏

Dear @mommunism.bsky.social @gorangligovic.bsky.social Soad has asked if you could please share my above quote post of her fundraiser if possible. Thank you so much.

Palestinian children like Soad's son Omar are being denied healthcare & starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating:

Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family.

Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

In the West Bank, during the Eid holiday, the photographer, reporter, and activist Alessandra Sanguinetti asked three little girls to sing their favorite song.
The girls thus decided to sing "Atouna El Toufoule" (Give us our childhood).

Cisgiordania, in occasione della festività di An Eid, la fotografa, reporter ed attivista Alessandra Sanguinetti chiese a tre bambine di intonare la loro canzone preferita.
Le bambine decisero così di cantare Atouna El Toufoule (Give us our childhood).

Palestinian children like Ahmad's are being starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can:

Palestinians like Rima's brother have to risk their lives to get flour from 'aid' points set up in Israeli-US operated killing fields as Israel starves them to death in their genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can, Rima's brother needs urgent treatment for his injuries:

Dreamed a pale spider the size of my hand, its body a mimic of a perfect rose covered in nuclear ash.

Dreamed I was in a bus that hurtled off a cliff, tossing all us passengers out of its windows to fall like angels into a sea golden in sunlight, and a deep and beautiful blue under the surface. I cannot swim, and swam for my life.

🫂❤️

a heavily textured painting with broad stokes that look like hands in a crowd holding a shrouded body with a press vest on top

A textured painting showing a press vest covered in blood

Artworks by Maram Ali, who always makes me sob uncontrollably
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Omar's GFM was shut down and all the money returned--they've had to start from scratch while being attacked, displaced, & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help if you can, Bsky keeps deleting/marking them as spam:

We are starting our week with @indrapramitdas.bsky.social's The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar.

Have you read it yet?

Why all this? Why does this never end? Why????

"I can envision no more perfect visual representation of my Dune world than John Schoenherr’s careful and accurate illustrations," Frank Herbert

Israel assassinated journalist Anas Al-Sharif and his entire Al-Jazeera TV crew in Gaza today.

CPJ warned of Israeli smear campaign against him, but few Western media outlets or journalists spoke out in defense of their Palestinian colleagues. Their silence is cowardly and shameful.

A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.

Palestinian children like Kinda are being denied healthcare, sickened & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:

Israel is a rabid dog.

Dear @gorangligovic.bsky.social Hammam has asked if you could please boost his latest post if possible. Thank you so much.