City On Fire : A Boyhood In Aligarh

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. It is as much an incisive examination of religion and violence, imagined histories and fractured realities, grief and love in todays India, as it is a paean to the hope of continued unity, to an idea of India..

Zeyad Masroor Khan is a journalist, writer and documentary film-maker based in New Delhi. In his decade-long journalistic career, he has worked with national and international media companies like Reuters, Vice, Brut and Deccan Herald. A South Asia Speaks fellow, he primarily writes on politics, marginalized communities, crime and culture. Three of his documentaries have been screened at international film festivals. City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh is his first book.

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