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1 week, 4 days ago

Lounge Fiction Special 2025: Heads or Tails by Zeyad Masroor Khan

It was cold and smoggy the day Delhi was nuked. “My son will become a superstar like Dilip Kumar," she’d tell him. “There is no chance of that happening now," Dilip thought as he got ready for his day’s delivery—a 30kg sack of roasted cashews destined for a trader in Old Delhi’s Khari Baoli. “They will seal the surroundings to …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Aligarh lynching: Case of self defence and not Muslim victimisation

Op India

On the 18th of June 2024, a Muslim man called Mohammed Farid, who was also known as “Aurangzeb” was killed after being beaten up by Hindus in Aligarh. The Hindu side demanded that those arrested should be released, while the Muslim side demanded justice for Aurangzeb, who had entered a Hindu house late at night. — Zeyad Masroor Khan June …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Review: City on Fire; A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan

Hindustan Times

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Tolstoy’s famous line from Anna Karenina seems apt to comment on the place that the ghettoized Indian Muslim holds in Bharat today. In City on Fire, Zeyad Masroor Khan tells us his story of growing up in the prone-to-riots, historic ghetto of Upar Kot in Aligarh, …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Interview: Zeyad Masroor Khan – “My relationship with faith is always oscillating”

Hindustan Times

My understanding of the concept of home was destroyed and then remade. I firmly believe most privileged people “choose” to be disillusioned because they don’t want to make efforts to change things. Didn’t monuments constructed by Muslims, now not seen as “Indian”, bring revenue to the Indian exchequer? When I was a boy who was part of the Tablighi Jamaat, …

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1 year ago

Review of Zeyad Masroor Khan’s City on Fire — A Boyhood in Aligarh: Life in a ghetto

The Hindu

In her thought-provoking 1961 essay, philosopher Hannah Arendt dealt with the “banality of evil” by engaging in conversations with German officers who worked in concentration camps and presided over the killing of Jews. In his debut book, City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh, Zeyad Masroor Khan grapples with something similar. While Zeyad’s uncles chose migration to Pakistan, his father, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Eastern Libya militia operates illegal pullbacks in Mediterranean

Al Jazeera

Pullbacks from Eastern Libya The 250 passengers were taken to Benghazi, in the eastern swathe of divided Libya, where General Khalifa Haftar runs parallel institutions to the UN-recognised government in Tripoli. NGOs including Sea Watch and Alarm Phone accused Malta in May of coordinating “criminal pushback by proxy” through the Tareq Bin Zeyad. “It does so through a sort of …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Rescue groups say Malta coordinated the return of 500 migrants to Libya instead of saving them

Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — A group of non-governmental organizations dedicated to rescuing migrants in the central Mediterranean is accusing the European island nation of Malta of coordinating the return of around 500 people to Libya where they were subsequently imprisoned, in violation of international maritime law. Migrants aboard the vessel shared their GPS location with Alarm Phone showing they were in …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Rescue groups say Malta coordinated the return of 500 migrants to Libya instead of saving them

The Independent

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4 years, 10 months ago

Delhi riots aftermath: Muslims lock up homes, flee to find shelter in other parts of city, country; many are rebuffed

Firstpost

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series that examines how Muslims in and around regions near Delhi have had to significantly alter their lives following the recent riots. Earlier when we used to pass the street, somebody initiated greetings by saying ‘Salaam’ from their balconies, but now it’s vice versa and the term has conveniently changed to …

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Lounge Fiction Special 2025: Heads or Tails by Zeyad Masroor Khan

Aligarh lynching: Case of self defence and not Muslim victimisation

Review: City on Fire; A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan

Interview: Zeyad Masroor Khan – “My relationship with faith is always oscillating”

Review of Zeyad Masroor Khan’s City on Fire — A Boyhood in Aligarh: Life in a ghetto

Eastern Libya militia operates illegal pullbacks in Mediterranean

Rescue groups say Malta coordinated the return of 500 migrants to Libya instead of saving them

Rescue groups say Malta coordinated the return of 500 migrants to Libya instead of saving them

Delhi riots aftermath: Muslims lock up homes, flee to find shelter in other parts of city, country; many are rebuffed