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Biography

A journalist by profession, Zeyad Masroor Khan writes on minority affairs, drugs, crime, politics and pop culture. In the last seven years, he has worked with Reuters, Vice, Brut India and Deccan Herald. He grew up in the old town in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh. In an area populated by mostly lock workers and frequently overrun by communal violence, he closely saw how religion, class, caste and gender identities shape the life of huge populace in India’s largest state. An alumni of AJK MCRC, he aims to represent the aspirations of the young men and women of the Indian heartland, while trying to encompass the gritty but fascinating stories of the nation’s complicated diversities. In his career, he has written about satanist cults in Aligarh, Bulandshahr boys running to be armymen, ‘witches’ in Assam, gun smugglers in Bihar, dating lives of Delhi’s urban poor, Istanbul’s Taksim Square protests and India’s presidential elections.

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Total articles 93

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  “One Day There Was A City, A Family, A Country & Then There Wasn’t:” Writer Of New Memoir On Gujarat Riots

  By Zeyad Masroor Khan

  Dec. 06, 2024

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  Buy City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh Book Online at Low Prices in India

  By Zeyad Masroor Khan

  Nov. 29, 2024

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  The Dark Side of Crowdfunding

  By Zeyad Masroor Khan, Meghna Prakash

  Oct. 19, 2024

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