Description
| Product ID: | 9789356998247 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | City on Fire |
| Subtitle: | A Boyhood in Aligarh |
| Authors: | Author: Zeyad Masroor Khan |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, True stories: general, Islam, True stories, Islam |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | HarperCollins India |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins India |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-12-06 |