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Sehba Imam Media Professional, Writer, Social Activist, and Incorrigible Meddler in Life.
September 5, 2018
Happy Teacher’s Day to a Feminist Father

Happy Teacher’s Day to a Feminist Father

There have been many teachers who taught me the alphabet, numbers and the laws of Physics and Chemistry. I was never a good student, so I have no fond memories of teachers – I suspect most backbenchers don’t! But every teacher’s day I think of that one teacher who taught me to be ‘me.’ When …

March 14, 2018
Wistful Memories of a Soulful Azan

Wistful Memories of a Soulful Azan

Azan, specially if the muazzin is besura, is a torture for auditory senses. Unfortunately, it’s very rare to hear soulful azans these days. In Aligarh, in our early childhood days, the masjids were somehow never too close to the kind of places we lived in. A strain of Azan would float by unobtrusively, through the …

January 30, 2018
Gandhi, Aligarh, and Two Minutes of Silence

Gandhi, Aligarh, and Two Minutes of Silence

I grew up in a fanatically secular home, with no gods but lots of festivals… Still the idea of God and reverence was all around – so, as a child I wasn’t clear who stood for what but knew that some figures were special – Ram, Muhammad, Christ, Gandhi and Lenin, they had to be …

June 29, 2017
No Eid In Junaid’s Village

No Eid In Junaid’s Village

Fifteen-year-old Junaid’s lynching in Ballabhgarh, while he was returning from his Eid shopping, had interfered with the joy of Eid to the extent that I didn’t even feel like celebrating. A day before Eid some of us went to Junaid’s  village, Khandwali to meet his mother. Grief was palpable in the entire village – you could reach your destination from two villages away, by …

May 27, 2017
Cleaning up a house where a relationship died

Cleaning up a house where a relationship died

It’s messy. And throws up many questions. Was it killed, murdered in cold blood? Culpable homicide or reciprocatory violence. Was it kidnapped and made to disappear? or was it a case of plain suicide in sheer desperation. Every corner has a story to tell, every chipped dish and decoration piece gathering dust is an eyewitness. …

May 15, 2017
Fishing in the Fish-less Pond

Fishing in the Fish-less Pond

Here’s a video of my TEDx talk at Sushant Lok, Gurgaon. “I wanted to walk, but the areas I wanted to explore were not safe to walk through alone… So I decided to get Gurgaon to walk with me!” Sehba Imam is the reason behind Let’s Walk Gurgaon; Let’s Walk Gurgaon or LWG in short …

March 9, 2016
Co-authoring “Ocean to Ocean”

Co-authoring “Ocean to Ocean”

One of the lovely things about Susmit’s guitar style is that he does not play in any other style. When I was a young professional I still had thoughts of being the next Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix. It took me quite a while to realize that even if you could reach that standard, you …

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