Habib Siddiqui

  Speaking with Bangladeshi architect Rizvi Hassan, STIR discovers the journey of a community space designed for the Rohingya refugees to strengthen their collective identity. by  STIRworld Published on : Jun 27, 2022 mage: Rizvi Hassan If you had an hour or less to pack your bags, what would you take? What if you won’t be coming back to your home, probably never, and no one’s carrying the bags for you. For the really privileged, this scenario could simply be a relatable plot from documentaries and movies that they watch from the comfort of their homes. Might if we add, "If that was us, we would have done things differently!" The truth is we never had to! But for 27.1 million people of the world, with the sand of the hourglass, their whole life slipped away. For a world with over 7,795 million global population, the plea of 0.34 per cent may not seem loud enough. However, we have talked, reported and documented the biggest refugee crisis from World Wars to the recent Russo-Uk...

  By   Hannah Ritchie , Rishabh Pratap,   Rhea Mogul   and   Hilary Whiteman , CNN Updated 0119 GMT (0919 HKT) June 23, 2022 New Delhi (CNN) "They're firing bullets, they're firing bullets!" a voice yells on video over the sound of gunfire during clashes between police and Muslim protesters in the eastern Indian city of Ranchi. Footage posted to social media of the June 10 protest shows 15-year-old Mudassir Alam raising his fist in the air as the crowd chants, "Long live Islam." More shots ring out, and Mudassir falls to the ground. "He's dead!" a bystander shouts, as people try to stop blood flowing from a wound to the teenager's head. Mudassir died later in hospital, one of two young men killed in the Ranchi clash -- the latest victims of a deepening religious divide between India's majority Hindu population and the minority Muslim community. The June 10 protest was one of several demonstrations that erupted around the country after t...