About the Book: But You Dont Look Like a Muslim: On Identity
What does it mean to be Muslim in India? What does it mean to look like ones
religion? Does ones faith determine how one is perceived? Is there a secular
ideal one is supposed to live up to? Can people of different faiths have a
shared culture, a shared identity? India has, since time immemorial, been
plural, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual, where various streams
have fed into and strengthened each other, and where dissimilarities have always
been a cause for rejoicing rather than strife. These writings, on and about
being Muslim in India, by