My friend Shahid had been killed

October 22, 2013 13:45

"On Feb. 11, 2010, I returned to Mumbai after a reporting assignment in Hyderabad. A rare weekend off with family, it was also my niece's birthday. I switched my phone to silent mode to avoid work-related phone calls and tried to play host to a bunch of kids who were home.

"At around 10 p.m., I returned back to my phone to find 50-odd missed calls and an equal number of messages. Anticipating some kind of news emergency, I pressed on the last message from a journalist friend, who asked, "Could you confirm if Shahid Azmi is dead?' My friend Shahid was 32. He had been killed." Read

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