NL Interview: Ghazala Wahab on being a Muslim in India
Newslaundry hosts the author and journalist for NL Recess.
11 Jul, 2021
In this episode of NL Recess, Mehraj D Lone hosts journalist and author Ghazala Wahab to discuss her recently released book
Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India, an autobiographical narrative of her journey through her faith.
Ghazala grew up privileged and received a university education but that, she says, didn t spare her from the constant fear of violence and prejudice that Muslims live with in India. In this context, she mentions a Hindu mob attack in her neighbourhood which significantly shaped how she viewed the state of her community.
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In such circumstances, Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India, becomes required reading. Cogent, comprehensive, courageous and all the more moving for that it reveals how the Indian Muslims, like blacks in the US, have become victims of structural discrimination. The author, Ghazala Wahab, an expert on homeland security, is a well-regarded journalist and executive editor of FORCE magazine. She traces the historical roots of Islam from seventh century Arabia and its arrival in the subcontinent, through multiple pathways that also influenced its evolution.
Internal divisions within the faith are explored. These and other disruptions have left the 200 million Indian Muslims caught in a bind between the ‘socio-political discrimination that they face at the hands of both lawmaking and law-enforcing authorities, which often manifests as physical and mental violence’ and ‘the vicious cycle perpetuated by illiteracy, poverty and the disproportionate influence o
On being born a Muslim in India This session at Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet saw Ghazala Wahab touching upon the complexities that mire the lived realities of being a ‘musalman’ in India
The session ‘Born a Muslim’ by Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet saw Ghazala Wahab, executive editor at Force, and co-author of
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Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India, the session gave way to an engrossing, revealing, and in many ways thought-provoking discussion on the book, touching upon the complexities that mire the lived realities of Muslims in India. Tuning in,
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