City on Fire : A Boyhood in Aligarh

City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh Through his years as a college student in Delhi, where being denied apartments because of his name was the norm; to ultimately becoming a journalist documenting history of his country as it happened. Zeyad Masroor Khan was four years old when he realized that an innocent act of clicking a switch near a window overlooking the street could trigger a riot. As the distant thud of a crowd grew closer and calls for murder rent the air, he got his first taste of growing up in Upar Kot, a Muslim ghetto in Aligarh. Khans world was far-removed from the Aligarh of popular imagination-of poets, tehzeeb and the intellectual corridors of the Aligarh Muslim University. His was a city where serpentine lanes simmered with violence, homes fervently prayed to dispel the omnipresent fear of a family member turning up dead, and the soft breeze that blew over crowded terraces carried rumours of a bloodthirsty mob on the prowl. In his coming-of-age memoir, Khan writes, with searing honesty and raw power, about the undercurrents of religious violence and the ensuing othering that followed him everywhere he went. Autor: Zeyad Masroor Khan Wydawnictwo: HarperCollins India Rok wydania: 2023 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 312 Wymiary: 15 x 22.4 x 2.8 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9789356998247