Mahmodul Hassan

3 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Mahmodul Hassan |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy

Sitting in her one-room raw-brick house in Bodhare village, in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district, Nimbabai Bima Savde, 55, was grieving her husband’s death. “He died of stress,” she said. “He was deceived into signing a land deal by a broker who claimed it was for the division of our family land.” But in reality, their farmland had been sold to a solar power company. “We depended on the land for survival; now we are struggling,” said Nimbabai, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste (SC) community.

3 weeks ago | shorturl.at | Mahmodul Hassan |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy

Sitting in her one-room raw-brick house in Bodhare village, in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district, Nimbabai Bima Savde, 55, was grieving her husband’s death. “He died of stress,” she said. “He was deceived into signing a land deal by a broker who claimed it was for the division of our family land.” But in reality, their farmland had been sold to a solar power company. “We depended on the land for survival; now we are struggling,” said Nimbabai, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste (SC) community.

Dec 8, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Vinod Shirsath |Paranjoy Guha Thakurta |Mahmodul Hassan

The original Muslim experience in the Indian subcontinent was shaped by the liberal eclectic Sufi orders and the social transformation brought about by a message of love, equality, and universal access to God. The most significant Sufi shrine in India, indeed the subcontinent, is the Ajmer Sharif dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, who is believed to be the founder of the Chishti order in South Asia.

Dec 3, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Mahmodul Hassan |Karan Madhok |Vaishna Roy

In 2019, the descendants of an erstwhile zamindar family entered into an “agreement of sale” for 91 acres of land to Azure Power Forty Pvt Ltd in Mikir Bamuni Grant village in Assam’s Nagaon district to build a solar power plant. The land deal directly affected the livelihoods of at least 60 families who were dependent on agriculture.

Nov 16, 2024 | thenewsminute.com | Mahmodul Hassan

In February 2024, 42-year-old farmer Ananda Bhairu Shinde woke up to a distress call from a friend, informing him that their village land in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district was falling under the Shaktipeeth Expressway project. Ananda said he, along with other village farmers, were already worried after witnessing the sight of drones being flown over their village land for a “survey” in January. “I immediately checked the file of the Gazette notification I received from my friend.