Living dangerously
Everyday Communalism and Working with Muslims, two new books by Sudha Pai, Sajjan Kumar and Farah Naqvi talk about how living in postcolonial India has been tough for the Muslims community.
Living as a Muslim in postcolonial India has been, and remains, a tough business. Two new books suggest that the burgeoning fears, caused in no small part by New Delhis latest rulers, the Republics largest minority appear to be well-founded. One attempts to suss out the causes of riots, and the other, the responses of civil society in their aftermath.
In Everyday Communalism, the authors make the case for a
