Burhan, alive from grave
On an evening of October 2010, he stopped his bike on a CRPF check-post for routine scrutiny. Unknown to the forthcoming mayhem, security personnel...
‘He sought hope as keenly as documenting despair’
After entering Syed Shujaat Bukhari’s office in Press Colony, just off Residency Road, I was invited to sit on the bench that ran perpendicular...
The Ballads of Burhan
Soon after the news of encounter diffused into the streets, shops, even the living rooms of the common people residing in the cities and...
“Abuji, I’m sorry I couldn’t fulfill your promise”
By Muda Tariq and Tamana Qari
“Abu ji, I’m sorry I couldn’t fulfill your promise,” a militant son tells his father.
On 1 April 2018, a...
Sheer, 1961
The air was moist from yesterday’s rain and the sun rose reluctantly as if struggling for space, choked by the gushing wind. She sat...
India’s Gau Rakshaks: “Cow killers need to be taught a lesson”
When Mohammed Iqbal (36) left his home in Hapur on the morning of 6 February 2017, he was carrying 40,000 rupees in cash. A...
2017: The year of lynchings
The violent activism of self-styled ‘cow protectors’, who call themselves ‘Gau rakshaks’, involves thrashing, harassing and lynching people — anytime, anywhere. And with the...
Cow as a political crutch in Hindutva politics
The idea of the cow as the revered mother, worthy of lifetime service, and therefore outside the purview of the abattoir, is no earlier...
Destructing rural economy in the name of ‘cow protection’
Livestock has played a crucial role in the Indian economy since pre-historic times. The cow and cow products like milk, ghee, meat and hide...
The confessions of an Indian beef-eater
That those eat now, who never ate before,
And those who always ate, now eat the more.
Beef or buff, Cow or bull, was never political...
