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Soni Pandey’s 'Suno Kabir' captures Azamgarh’s Ibrahimpur—its weaving tradition, fractured Hindu-Muslim ties, and women reshaping identity—portraying an Indian village in uneasy yet hopeful transition

XSoni Pandey’s Suno Kabir took me back on a memory lane to 2004, when I was an election observer for the Azamgarh constituency in the general elections that year. I knew three things about Azamgarh at that time: Allan Octavio Hume of the ICS and the founding father of the Congress had included this district in his survey report on agriculture and revenue. Kaifi Azmi, the famous lyricist, belonged to this city. And that this was also the birthplace of Rahul Sankritayan.

One of the first things I did was to visit the Shibli National College Library (established 1883) to seek out book

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