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As he watched his son’s body being placed in the crematorium, Mohammed Fahim stood outside the cemetery, weeping.
“How could I watch my baby being burned,” demanded the Muslim man, whose faith prohibits cremation and any form of mutilation of the body after death.
The family had been dealt blow after blow when their infant son Mohammed Shaykh was diagnosed with pneumonia upon admission at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital. An antigen test conducted on the 20-day old infant revealed he was positive for the corona virus. His parents, including the mother who was breast-feeding little Shaykh, have tested negative.
Vajra Chandrasekera
In July 2017, 25-year-old Ahnaf Jazeeem published Navarasam, a book of poetry in Tamil. The poems were organised along the themes of the nine rasas concept in Indian aesthetics, about the ‘flavour’ of any artistic work that evokes an emotional response in the audience or reader.
The anthology included poems of wonder, humour, courage, anger, and some verses on political themes. Ahnaf’s poetry was critical of US imperialism, the Rohingya genocide and the Islamic State (IS).
Three years later, the book of verses has condemned Ahnaf to a prison cell for seven long months under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).