Tag: Niyajul

By Nikhil M. Babu, New Delhi : In the evenings, as other children play with their siblings in Arahara village of Jharkhand, Niyajul, 8, and Safina, 10, often say: "If only our brother was here..." It's something their parents find hard to respond to. Their 12-year-old son, the brother missed by his siblings, was killed by suspected cow vigilantes two years ago. "They would say, 'If brother was here, he would have played with us'," Mohammad Azad, 45, said with his teary-eyed wife Najma Beebi, 35, by his side. The couple lost...