Sharjeel Usmani

Sep 27, 2024 | maktoobmedia.com | Sharjeel Usmani

Maulana Mahmood Madani’s recent sit-down with Sushant Sinha, a journalist-turned-YouTuber infamous for his anti-Muslim propaganda and Islamophobia, has been making a lot of Muslim youths angry. Small clips from the almost two-hour-long podcast have been making the rounds on social media and WhatsApp groups alike.

Aug 31, 2024 | thepolisproject.com | Bhavya Dore |Sukhada Tatke |P. Baruah |Sharjeel Usmani

Like most Van Gujjars in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, 70-year-old Noor Mohammad has lived in forests all his life. He lived with his wife and daughter in a dera—a small cluster of huts made of mud and tree branches, usually occupied by a single Van Gujjar family—in the Chapdi range of Shivalik Forest, around 60 kilometres from Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district. Less than 20 feet away, his son lived with his wife and their two sons.

Apr 2, 2024 | maktoobmedia.com | Sharjeel Usmani

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a joint rally alongside the NDA’s new partner, Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), in Meerut, the main opposition party in the state is still looking unprepared to take on the electoral challenge. Jayant Chaudhary’s RLD was earlier in alliance with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP), where both parties contested the 2019 general elections and the 2022 assembly elections together.

Jan 10, 2024 | thepolisproject.com | Sharjeel Usmani |Bhavya Dore |Sukhada Tatke |Sabahat Ali Wani

When I was nine years old, I had one of my earliest encounters with the barbed wire—it was not my first, but it is the one I still vividly remember. I was on my school bus, nervously waiting for my stop. My father had collected my final-term results, so I knew anger and disappointment awaited me at home. When I saw the familiar maze of concertina coils on the road, I stood up. This was my stop, I lived on the right side of the all-wired road.