She has participated in several plays and demonstrations denouncing communalism . In 1989 , along with Swami Agnivesh and Asghar Ali Engineer , she undertook a four-day march for communal harmony from New Delhi to Meerut . Among the social groups whose causes she has advocated are slum dwellers , displaced Kashmiri Pandit migrants and victims of the earthquake at Latur ( Maharashtra , India ) . The 1993 Mumbai riots appalled her and she emerged as a forceful critic of religious extremism . In 1995 , she reflected on her life as an activist in an interview in Rungh . After the 11 September 2001 attacks , she opposed the advice of the grand mufti of Jama Masjid calling upon the Muslims of India to join the people of Afghanistan in their fight by retorting that the leader go there alone
earthquake at Latur
1993 Latur earthquake
Shabana Azmi