Zeyad Masroor Khan
Staff Writer
Zeyad Masroor Khan is a staff writer at VICE India.
From Rags to Rugby: How the Sport Changed Lives of Slum Kids in Delhi
A rugby team of correction house inmates, former beggars, school dropouts and slum dwellers has found its place in a sport few care about in India.
I Spent My Birthday Dealing With a Highly Secretive Yoga Cult
Binge-watching 'Wild Wild Country' should have prepared me for this. But it didn’t.
Kanhaiya Kumar Is Forging a New Political Career From His Hometown
In 2016, he became controversy's child with his alleged anti-India slogans. In 2019, this feisty student leader has returned to Begusarai to unofficially begin his election campaign as a Lok Sabha member.
Make in India: A Gun Smuggler Talks About Cheap Knock-Offs Taking Over the Illegal Gun Trade
“You bring any Chinese gun or a even a Kalashnikov to them (children trained in the craft), and they can replicate it to be one as good as the original."
The Theatre Scene of 'Bihar’s Leningrad’ Is Alive and Kicking
As raunchy Bhojpuri and Bollywood films increase in popularity across India, theatre artists in this small town still practise in dingy offices, community grounds, and ‘communist complexes’.
What happens at a Retirement Party in Small-Town Bihar...
In the British-era railway colony of Jamalpur, there are hundreds of "final" parties every New Year's Eve, with all guns blazing—quite literally.
Hockey Trumps Cricket in This Indian City
Indian hockey might have slid from glory to gloom, but in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur it’s still more popular than cricket, thanks to family-managed and often cash-starved hockey clubs.
A Rampur Lawyer Tells Us How Crimes Are Committed ‘Legally’ in His Town
A veteran defence lawyer tells us how murders are committed as “accidents” and how the law upholds the might of the land mafia.
Rampur's Urdu Poetry Is About Power cuts, Sensuality and Quirky Nawabs
In this conservative town, poets explore romance, sexuality, prevalent orthodoxy and exploitation by erstwhile nawabs through humour.
Rampur’s Kite-Flying Craze: Ground for Stardom, Insults, Freak Accidents and Attempted Murder
Kites designated as ‘lucky’ are kept in families, cared for like their own children, and almost every male flies kites—even after the police banned it after fatal accidents.
Even in Meghalaya’s Matrilineal Society, It’s the Men Who Propose
While tribals express interest through paan leaves and tree roots, the urban crowd has only recently moved on to proposing through Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp.
This Khasi Fourth-Standard Dropout Learned English Solely by Watching Hollywood Films
In the quiet village of Mawphlang in Meghalaya, John Starfield Myrthong’s career—and subsequently his life—took a turn when a friend gave him the DVD of ‘Home Alone’.