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Seraj Ali

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Covers:  Identity, politics, conflict, religion and environment.
Video journalist @BBCHindi/@BBCWorld Filming, editing, presenting - recording history one bit at a time. AJK MCRC '18

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Revisiting a massacre: In Malyana, 72 Muslims await justice

Revisiting a massacre: In Malyana, 72 Muslims await justice

BBC — On 23rd May 1987, nearly 72 Muslims were killed in a massacre in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district. 36 years later, a session court acquitted everyone accused of partaking in the killings. The BBC explores how the investigation resulted in no convictions.

Finding citizenship: A tale of two men in Assam who struggled to be Indians again

Finding citizenship: A tale of two men in Assam who struggled to be Indians again

BBC — Asmat Ali & Shanti Debnath, residents of Assam, were accused of being foreigners from Bangladesh living in India illegally. Both men struggled, fighting to prove their Indian citizenship - a journey that brought them to brink of their deaths.

Hargila: How a women-led movement in Assam is attempting to save a stork species from extinction

Hargila: How a women-led movement in Assam is attempting to save a stork species from extinction

BBC — How do you save a bird that has long been considered a bad omen? In Assam, Dr. Punima Devi Burman leads a grassroots movement to save the greater adjutant stork - a bird that had for long been killed for being a bad omen.

Bijnor: Leopard attacks spark fear in Uttar Pradesh district

Bijnor: Leopard attacks spark fear in Uttar Pradesh district

BBC — "I saw the animal come into our front yard, grab my daughter and run. That was the last time I saw her alive." Manisha Singh cannot forget the day her six-year-old daughter, Yashi, was killed by a leopard. The attack was just one of many in Bijnor. In the past three months, seven people have died due to leopard attacks in the district.

Watch: How a Mosque in UP's Barabanki Was Demolished

Watch: How a Mosque in UP's Barabanki Was Demolished

The Wire (India) — On May 17, a mosque in the Ram Sanehi Ghat city in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, was demolished by the administration. The administration claimed that the mosque was an 'illegal structure'. Two months before the demolition, in the month of March, the administration barred the entry of worshippers to the mosque.

Watch | Ground Report: Delhi Struggles to Survive Second Wave of COVID-19

Watch | Ground Report: Delhi Struggles to Survive Second Wave of COVID-19

The Wire (India) — For six consecutive days, India has recorded over 300,000 cases of COVID-19. Within the month of April, nearly 34,600 lives were lost as the second wave of the coronavirus ravaged the country. In the capital, New Delhi, people are struggling to survive.

Watch | In 10 Minutes: What Has Been the Government's Response to COVID-19?

Watch | In 10 Minutes: What Has Been the Government's Response to COVID-19?

The Wire (India) — More than a year has passed since the coronavirus outbreak became a serious issue in India, and the situation today is perhaps more dire than any other time in the last year. But what has the government's focus been thus far, and how did we get here? Seraj Ali explains.

Watch | What A Pegasus Attack on Your Phone Can Look Like

Watch | What A Pegasus Attack on Your Phone Can Look Like

The Wire (India) — This is a depiction of how a Pegasus attack can look like on a person's phone. Over the past few days, The Wire - in collaboration with 16 other media organisations - has been revealing the names of people who were either persons of interest or forensically identified as having been targeted by clients of the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.

Watch: 'BJP-RSS Has Indirectly Conveyed That Anything Can Be Done to Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims...

Watch: 'BJP-RSS Has Indirectly Conveyed That Anything Can Be Done to Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims...

The Wire (India) — On Tuesday, March 2, a Dalit RTI activist was allegedly hacked to death inside his home by a group of 'upper'-caste Kshatriyas in Sanodar village of Ghogha taluka in Bhavnagar district in Gujarat. A month ago, Boricha, who was primarily a farmer, had complained against the Kshatriyas at the Ghogha police station, but sub-inspector P.R.

Testimonies From a Violence | Delhi Riots 2020

Testimonies From a Violence | Delhi Riots 2020

youtu.be — In February 2020, waves of communal violence and bloodshed took place in North East Delhi. In the carnage that unfolded, 53 people lost their lives.

Watch | The 'Toolkit' Explained: Police Arrest 'Key Conspirators' but What's the Crime?

Watch | The 'Toolkit' Explained: Police Arrest 'Key Conspirators' but What's the Crime?

The Wire (India) — On Saturday, February 13, the Delhi Police arrested 22-year old climate activist Disha Ravi in connection with the sedition conspiracy case it has filed over a 'toolkit' aimed at organising peaceful protests in support of the ongoing farmers' movement in India.

Watch | 'Neutralise' Media, Colour Code Journalists: Ministers' Meeting Report

Watch | 'Neutralise' Media, Colour Code Journalists: Ministers' Meeting Report

The Wire (India) — In the middle of 2020, the Narendra Modi government set up a Group of Ministers to manage the image crisis the government was facing. The full GoM report was leaked on the Internet recently and provides details about what the government would like to do.

From Tourists to Terrorists: How Foreign Muslims Were Vilified and Arrested in India

From Tourists to Terrorists: How Foreign Muslims Were Vilified and Arrested in India

VICE — Hundreds of foreign attendees of an Islamic missionary movement, Tablighi Jamaat, were wrongfully declared "super-spreaders" of COVID-19 in India.