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

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Adherents of Islam
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Indian religion
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Aligarh

City in Uttar Pradesh, India
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