City on Fire: A Memoir of Communal Violence, Resilience and Humanity

Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on July 5, 2024
Journalist Zeyad Masroor Khan poignantly chronicles his boyhood in the heart of Aligarh's Hindu-Muslim tensions. Weaving together personal trauma, oral histories, and astute social commentary, Khan's story illuminates the human toll of communal violence while ultimately finding resilience and hope for change

You are here


💡 newsR Knowledge: Other News Mentions

Muslims

Adherents of Islam
The Supreme Court granted bail to two more convicts in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case, where 38 Muslim men were killed by Provincial Armed Constabulary..
Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 3 days ago

BJP leader Rajneesh Singh urged Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to reclaim land allocated for a mosque in Ayodhya, alleging the Muslim community's intent was..
Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 5 days ago

Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 5 days ago

The Supreme Court collegium reprimanded Allahabad High Court Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav for his controversial speech at a VHP event. The collegium advised him..
Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 5 days ago


Hinduism

Indian religion
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Kuwait speech, accusing him of promoting hatred between Hindus and minorities in India..
Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 18 hours ago

Syed Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, Ajmer Dargah's spiritual head, lauded RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's call to avoid new temple disputes. Bhagwat's advice against creating..
Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 1 day ago

BJP members and Hindu organizations protested in Coimbatore against the state government's handling of the funeral of S.A. Basha, a convict in the 1998..
Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 2 days ago

In a Lok Sabha debate, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad criticized Rahul Gandhi's understanding of history and the Congress party's stance during the Emergency...
Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 1 week ago

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticized BJP policies during a Lok Sabha debate. He used Hindu scriptures to illustrate his points. He compared the government's..
Credit: IndiaTimes - Published 1 week ago


Aligarh

City in Uttar Pradesh, India
The Ghaziabad-Kanpur Expressway will be connecting 9 districts including Ghaziabad, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Kasganj, Farrukhabad, Kannauj and Unnao.
Credit: DNA - Published 1 week ago

You might like