Senior journalist Zeya Saheb has left us, as well The Milli Gazette Online 22 Apr 2021
New Delhi (22 April 2021): Mohammad Zeyaul Haque, a senior journalist, well known in journalistic and intellectual circles of Delhi, Bihar and UP, passed away on Thursday after a short hospitalisation, the end came around 7:30 pm today. He was 72.
Born in 1948 in a remote village of Bihar called Badharwa Fateh Mohammad, under Dhaka subdivision of East Chamapran district, he received his early education in Dhaka. After schooling, he went to college in Motihari and later joined LS college, Muzaffarpur, from where he graduated with English Literature. Inclined towards Journalism and writing from college days, he went to Lucknow to pursue his Journalistic career, first joining Urdu daily,
Kashmir’s Women Chroniclers
Durdana Bhat
Journalists hold a protest outside the office of the Directorate of Information and Public Relations against the assault on two on their colleagues. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
When Afsana Rashid, started her career as a journalist way back in 2002, as a reporter for
Kashmir Images, there were hardly any women journalists in Kashmir.
“I was given due space in all the news organizations I worked with,” said Afsana, currently working as an assistant professor at the Media Education Research Centre (MERC), Kashmir University. “As an individual, you have to not only create a space for yourself but you have to maintain that space as well”