‘I didn’t go’: The last Muslim man in Indian town hit by religious strife

Ahamad Hasan was once the only dry-cleaner in the remote town of Nanda Nagar in northern India, visited by Hindu and Muslim customers alike. Now, he waits for hours for people to come by [Jawaher Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]

Nanda Nagar, Uttarakhand, India — Every morning at 8am, Ahamad Hasan pulls up the brown shutter of his dry-cleaning shop on the banks of the Nandakini river, which runs through the remote Himalayan town of Nanda Nagar in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.

He neatly hangs dry-cleaned clothes in plastic covers on the pink walls of his shop. Then the 49-year-old waits for customers.