City on Fire : A Boyhood in Aligarh
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9365693101
ISBN-13
9789365693102
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers India
Imprint
HarperCollins Publishers India
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 21st, 2025
Print length
312 Pages
Weight
264 grams
Dimensions
14.40 x 21.70 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
MemoirsTrue storiesReligion: generalIslamIslamic studies
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City on Fire is a rare visceral portrait of how everyday violence and hate become part of our lives and consciousness, of a society where name and clothes mark out a person as the ''other''.
Zeyad Masroor Khan was four years old when he realized that an innocent act of playing with 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. Khan''s 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.
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