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Danish Siddiqui to be buried at Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard
Danish Siddiqui to be buried at Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard
NEW DELHI, July 18: Slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui will be laid to rest at the Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard, according to a statement on Sunday.
“Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) Vice Chancellor accepted the request of the family of late photojournalist Danish Siddiqui to bury his body at the JMI graveyard meant exclusively for university employees, their spouses and minor child,” the university said in the statement.
Siddiqui had done his masters from the university. His father Akhtar Siddiqui was the Dean of Faculty of Education there.
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“I t feels like a part of oneself is gone,” my friend Ajmal Jami texted me hours after the news broke of the death of Danish Siddiqui the 38-year-old Reuters photojournalist killed while covering the armed conflict between Afghanistan Special Forces and the Taliban, on assignment in Kandahar.
Jami is a decade senior to me and Danish was nearly a decade junior. In common between us is AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, where each of us had studied before embarking on our careers as photo and video journalists. “Danish’s death cuts deep,” Jami added. “We have been there, gone through that same mix of adrenalin, fear, wound up tension, exhilaration and sorrow.”
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