Fellows & Editors
Nida Najar
- Trip:
- Religion Fellows 2013
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2013
Nida Najar is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi. She has produced stories from India for The New York Times and its first country-specific site, India Ink. She has written on HIV/AIDS in the country’s remote Northeast, on factional violence in Kashmir, on the country’s complex higher education landscape and on a group of aging desert musicians in Rajasthan. Her work has also appeared in The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor and Caravan Magazine. She received a Masters degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Brown University in Providence.
Stories
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Jews From Northeast India Seek Asylum in Israel
Abel and Sharon Hangsingh and their children and grandchildren all waited for the sun to set over the rusting steel roofs of their modest Buelah Lane colony. It is an early sunset,...
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Fear and Loathing in North India’s Sugar Cane Town
Zareena Khatun, 45, covered her head and part of her anguished face in a white scarf and her sun-battered hands worried a string of white prayer beads. Ms. Khatun sat on the floor...
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Zubin Mehta’s Concert Strikes A Discordant Note In Kashmir
In Kashmir, the Shalimar Gardens of Srinagar, a relic of Mughal-era emperors, has been restored to its imperial tranquility with murmuring fountains, shallow pools and manicured beauty. {image-1} ...
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On Assam’s River Islands, Family Planning Clashes Against Religious Tradition
On the banks of the Brahmaputra River, off the coast of Dhubri town in the northeastern state of Assam, lie a few hundred villages that seem stuck in time, difficult to reach...
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In New Delhi, Sikhs Take to the Streets Almost 30 Years After the Riots
For the past two weeks, a long stretch of the road leading to Jantar Mantar, an ancient observatory in central Delhi, has been witness to ongoing protests by members of the Sikh...
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On India’s Campuses, Female Students Speak Out About ‘Deep Rooted’ Gender Discrimination
In a cramped room on the sprawling campus of Ramjas College here, some 40 female students gathered recently to discuss a problem they say they face almost daily: gender discrimination. The students, mostly...
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