DANISH SIDDIQUI

DANISHSIDDIQUI

19 May 1983-16 July 2021

The best photojournalist India has had in a half-century. Danish's work has been inspiring

me to create my own set of work in illustrations. He has been a true inspiration and a heavy influence on me and many like me; both aesthetically and ideologicall.

His absence in the field of photojournalism and conflict art will be felt for decades to come. May he rest in power, and may more photojournalists and conflict artists get inspired by his work and reflect upon it to develop genuine documentation of our society, culture, politics and economy.

His death-by-Taliban has been mourned across the world, in every democratic/progressive polity - but not by India's Hinduttvavādī dispensation. The saffronistrolls under the control of the Sangh Parivār are abusing him, instead, for having been a Muslim who tore the veil off the government's monstrous mishandling of the coronacrisis, and are celebrating his killing.

And, so, here these Hinduttvavādīs are, supporting the Islamist, Hinduphobic Taliban, by default.

The very Taliban that had, in May 2001, passed an edict requiring Hindus in Afghanistan to wear identifying yellow badges, and Hindu women to wear burqās.Much as one mourns Siddiqui's death, one mourns the death of secular democracy in India more.

The Indian-origin British übersculptor Anish Kapoor had a point when he called the saffronistas, in June 2021, the "Hindu Taliban".

THE BEST OF DANISH SIDDIQUI

Curated by and courtesy.

An exhausted Rohingya Women touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh - Mayanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, In Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.

- 11 Sept 2017.

A soldier eats Icecream as she visits a zoo In Pyongyang, North Korea. - 12 Sept 2018.

Wrestlers practice as others rest at an Akhada in Mumbai. - 4 March 2014.

Mass cremation of corona virus Victims at a crematorium ground in New Delhi.

 - 22 April 2021.

A man works in cotton factory in mumbai. 

- 4 June 2010.

A member of the Iraqi federal Police throws a hand grenade during clashes with Islamic state fighters in western Mosul, Iraq.

- 29 April 2017 

People creamate their families body in New Delhi. - 24 April 2021

Rambhakt Gopal brandishes a gun during an Anti-CAA protest outside Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. - 30 January 2020

A health worker reacts before the burial of a CRPF Officer who died from coronavirus at a graveyard in India. - 29 April 2020

Protester wearing an Guy Fawkess Mask during Human Rights Day March Organised by the Civil Human Rights Front, In Hongkong.

-  8 December 2019

Ropes weighed down with waterbottles are used to apply traction to the factured legs of a girl injured during the earthquake, in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal. - 29 April 2015

Naga Baba puts on his mask before joining the dip in Ganges during Shahi Snan at the  Mahakumbh Mela admist spread of the corona virus, in Haridwar. - 12 April 2021

Fisherman sit on the boat in front of the damaged cargo ship, MSC chitra, Arabian Sea off the mumbai coast. - 9 August 2010

An Afghan boy works at a construction site as a US Army soldier of the 3/1 AD Task Force Bulldog takes position during a joint patrol with the Afghan National Army in kherwar district, Eastern Afghanistan. - 23 May 2012

A devotee breaks a pot of curd as others form a pyramid to mark janmashtami, in mumbai.

- 25 August 2016 

A man pulls the hair of a women Beleived to have been possessed by the evil spirits as she goes into a trance at the Guru Deoji Maharaj Temple during an exorcism fair at village malakpur in Betul district, Madhya Pradesh.

- 26 January 2013.

A schoolbag in the bed of wishmi, 14. In Negombo srilanka. Wishmi, her sister and father were killed during the eastern Sunday bombings at St. Sebastian church in Negombo.