Articles by: Sadiq Zafar

Beyond Babri – Deliberations in a Muslim neighborhood

Beyond Babri – Deliberations in a Muslim neighborhood

When the Babri Masjid was demolished in 1992, Indian cities witnessed the construction of an invisible border that gradually began to demarcate Muslim residential areas and markets. Every anti-Muslim riot heightened this sense of vulnerability, alienating Muslim communities even more. These limits are considerably more visible today, thirty years later. The Faizabad Road neighbourhood in Gonda, located 48 kilometers from[Read More…]

by 04/10/2022 Comments are Disabled India
The Kashmir Upspring

The Kashmir Upspring

A month has passed and peace seems to be an unimaginable thing in the valley of Kashmir. Burning in the political inferno, only the people of Kashmir are at the suffering end while the Indian state seems to be busy in drafting the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Amendments. With hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries, brutalities and torture, the[Read More…]

by 30/08/2016 2 comments Kashmir