Areeb Majeed and three
other young men from Doodh Naka in Kalyan at the north-eastern edge of
Mumbai, the nowhere land that is part of the extended suburb of the metropolis
but far from its imagination, left for Iraq on the night of May 25, 2014.
They left ostensibly
for pilgrimage in the war-ravaged country. The plan, however, was to join the
Islamic State (IS or ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, a decision that involved months
of interaction with the online handlers, financiers and recrui
is a staff reporter at Fountain Ink. The Middle East, foreign policy, crime, fashion, and social media are her areas of interest.
