Hussain Mir

Hussain Mir is an independent journalist based in India-administered Kashmir. He covers human rights, insurgency, environment, health and business. Irshad holds a masters in convergent journalism from Center University of Kashmir. His work has appeared in Women Media Center, the Independent, Asian Democracy Chronicle, South Asian Today, FairPlanet, the Hindu, Boomlive, First Post, and many other publications.

A widow poses at the entrance of a staircase at the Meera Sahavagini ashram in the pilgrimage town of Vrindavan, in Uttar Pradesh, India, on March 6, 2013.
Poverty

India’s “Widow Village”

by Hussain Mir

Silicosis deaths are rising among miners in Budhpura, Rajasthan