Natasha Badhwar “I t feels like a part of oneself is gone,” my friend Ajmal Jami texted me hours after the news broke of the death of Danish Siddiqui — the 38-year-old Reuters photojournalist killed while covering the armed conflict between Afghanistan Special Forces and the Taliban, on assignment in Kandahar. Jami is a decade senior to me and Danish was nearly a decade junior. In common between us is AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, where each of us had studied before embarking on our careers as photo and video journalists. “Danish’s death cuts deep,” Jami added. “We have been there, gone through that same mix of adrenalin, fear, wound up tension, exhilaration and sorrow.”