Frontline
How a Sufi saint’s shrine became a tinderbox in India’s religious strife
In The Many Lives of Syeda X, journalist Neha Dixit traces a “faceless” woman’s story through decades of communal tension in India.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/prelude-to-lohta-riots-varanasi-1992-babri-demolition-gyanvapi-book-excerpt-the-many-lives-of-syeda-x-neha-dixit/article68463727.ece
The Wire
Love, Marriage and the Hindu Kanya Raksha Front
‘If we go home, they will kill me and perhaps you too. If not, they will get you arrested.’
https://thewire.in/communalism/neha-dixit-india-love-jihad-communalism-book-excerpt
The Telegraph
Chudail, which translates as Witch
What does it mean to be poor, Muslim and a woman in India? To become a mother at 16, to be working, to do 50-plus jobs in 30 years, to bury a grown up son? To survive it all and yet remain an invisible Indian? What does it mean to be Syeda?
https://www.telegraphindia.com/life/chudail-an-excerpt-from-the-many-lives-of-syeda-x-the-story-of-an-unknown-indian/cid/2038534
Scroll.in
A new book follows the life of a faceless Indian woman from Varanasi to Delhi over 30 years
An excerpt from ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown’, by Neha Dixit.
https://scroll.in/article/1071338/a-new-book-follows-the-life-of-a-faceless-indian-woman-from-varanasi-to-delhi-over-30-years
The Print
How unfair, low-wage jobs at electronics factories helped women escape abusive families
In ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X’, Neha Dixit chronicles the life of Syeda, a Muslim migrant worker, and the people in her life.
https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/how-unfair-low-wage-jobs-at-electronics-factories-helped-women-escape-abusive-families/2198031/