What is it like for a Hindu to live in a Muslim dominated area?
There is one major question and two sub questions. Ans 1: Pretty normal if you are irreligious, don’t care about being a Hindu. If you don’t wear a tilak, don’t wear a dhaga on your hand or if your janeu is not visible, if you don’t play Hindu devotional songs, if you worship your God with pin drop silence at home, if you never criticize any Islamic belief or men/women, if you maintain your silence and enjoy some friends among the Muslim community, can read Urdu or Nastaliq script, if you have no dietary issues and if you don’t mind being called mushrikeen/malaun/lollay/etc you should be fine as a Hindu man in a Muslim dominated area. Otherwise it is suffocating for those who are new. Ans 2: Newcomers, guests or relatives who visit for short duration live in fear. They don’t go out. This is especially true for the young women. The instances of eve teasing somehow increases 10 times as compared to areas with Hindu/Sikh majority. Ans 3: Yes. Religious process...
