Title: Tales from a place less travelled : Azamgarh /
Authors: Ahmed, Shakeb,; Public Service Broadcasting Trust (New Delhi, India); India.
Publisher: Public Service Broadcasting Trust,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Āzamgarh (India : District) Social conditions.
Abstract: Caught in the crosshairs of a war against terror, a politics of fear and prejudice, a convulsion of increasingly polarised identities, Azamgarh is a tarnished town today. Expansively seen as a 'nursery of terror' because of the corporate media, Azamgarh, a small sleepy district in Uttar Pradesh the locals here insist, is not and much more than a dangerous breeding ground for deranged terrorists. There is a rich collective memory, a glorious and cherished past, a shining tradition of syncretic living. There are more stories, other histories, more voices that one has yet not heard.