He works with the editorial and opinion section of The Hindustan Times. He was a fellow at the New India Foundation and a non-fiction fellow at Sarai-CSDS, and has contributed to The New York Times and Al Jazeera. An Ordinary Man’s Guide to Radicalism is his first book. It’s a memoir of being a Muslim in India, in which he talks about his growing up years in his village in Bihar and then, at the age of 10, of migrating to New Delhi and living alone in a ghetto. Through his personal stories, the author deals extensively with the fear and uncertainty that religious minorities face when the State and media treats them as the “Other”.