What Does It Mean to Be Muslim in India? Ghazala Wahab in Conversation with Karan Thapar
By Ghazala Wahab
Ghazala
Wahab is a well known writer. She started her career in journalism with the
Asian Age Newspaper in 1994. In August 2003, she started working in a National
Security and Aerospace Newsmagazine called ‘Force’ along with Pravin Sawhney. From
2003-1998, Ghazala worked as a principal correspondent in the Delhi bureau
(features) of The Telegraph newspaper. She has written on several issues like homeland
security, terrorism, communalism, international refugees; internally displace
people and insurgency, Jammu and Kashmir, Left-Wing Extremism and religious extremism.
She also contributed a chapter on the changing profile of terrorism in Jammu
and Kashmir for the book Operation Parakram, authored by Pravin Sawhney and Lt
Gen. V.K. Sood.
In
the following 39-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Ghazala Wahab
says Indian Muslims are caught “in a pincer grip” comprising two prongs. The
external is “the socio-political discrimination they face at the hands of both
law-making and law-enforcing authorities”. It often amounts to physical and
mental violence. It denies them equal opportunity, even justice. “This forces
Muslims to seek security in their own numbers, and they withdraw into ghettoes
on the periphery of the mainstream, thereby limiting their choices in terms of
accommodation, education and profession.”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCCYJDxuE8s&feature=youtu.be
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