The JCRC tried to silence me for advocating for Palestinians, but I will not stop speaking out – Mondoweiss

I come from a family of poets and healers. My grandparents and great-grandparents were writers, jurists, teachers, and physicians. They were keenly attuned to issues of social justice and social development, because their generation was tasked with rebuilding Hyderabad after it was forcibly annexed into the newly formed Indian Union via military occupation in 1948. The stories and anecdotes of our grandparents are most often passed down to me and my cousins, not just as political…