Niranjan Shukla never cared about the deep communal distrust in India. He didn’t care about ‘Hindu-Muslim’—like many youngsters would coolly say.
All of it… until the day his survival depended on it.
When the Delhi Riots erupted in 2020, his home in Brijpuri became a battlefield. The sky turned black with smoke, petrol bombs flew like missiles, and Hindu families huddled in fear as mobs hunted their targets.
Now, while the prime accused Tahir Hussain stepped out to campaign in the Delhi elections, Shukla relived the same trauma and horror.
What really happened in those 72 hours in February 2020? How did a neighborhood turn into a warzone?
Read this chilling firsthand account by Abhishek Kumar which shows how ‘riot’ was not actually that but a pre-planned carnage against Hindus.
Anmol N Jain
