May 1987: Hashimpura Massacre, the Long Road to Justice, and a Poet s Lament
On May 22, 1987, 42 Muslim men were were rounded up from the Hashimpura locality in Meerut by UP Provincial Armed Constabulary for their cold-blooded execution.
Hashimpura, 1987. Credit: Praveen Jain
mushaira on YouTube where preeminent Urdu poet Bashir Badr recited a rather mournful
sher
 tum taras nahi khaate bastiyan jalane mein
(It takes a lifetime to build a house
yet you remorselessly raze colonies to the ground)
Badr didnât reveal the context of his
sher and I took it as an incisive take on the unfortunate but all too common phenomenon of communal riots in the country. However, I inadvertently came across the context of his
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Leading Bihar cardiologist Dr Prabhat Kumar succumbs to COVID at Hyderabad hospital
Dr Kumar had tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus in the beginning of the month, admitted to a Patna hospital and taken to Hyderabad a few weeks later by an air ambulance.
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PATNA: A leading cardiologist of Bihar, who was recently airlifted to Hyderabad for treatment of COVID- related complications, on Tuesday breathed his last at a hospital in the southern city, according to information received here.
Condolences came pouring in for Dr Prabhat Kumar, credited with having launched the first angioplasty facility in the city, as the news of his death spread.
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About 40 bodies believed to be COVID-19 victims, have washed up on the banks of the Ganges river in northern India, officials said on Monday.
The pandemic has been spreading fast into India s vast rural hinterland, overwhelming local health facilities as well as crematoriums and cemeteries.
Local official Ashok Kumar said that about 40 corpses washed up in Buxar district near the border between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, two of India s poorest states. We have directed concerned officials to dispose of all bodies, to either bury or cremate them, Kumar told AFP.
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Some media reports said the number of corpses could be as high as 100.
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