![]() It was an ordinary day when the words, ‘Find your Sulli Deal of the day’, caught my attention on social media. We may contextualize this by considering our domestic socio-political situation. While it is a fact that Muslims form the largest minority in the country, a discourse on the identity of Muslim women in India is not as linear as it might appear. ![]() Women, anywhere in the world, are not a homogenous group and India is no exception to this. Neither is it about the struggle to assert religious identity. Let me assert at the very beginning that this essay is not a dialogue on gender identity. ![]() This new definition of identity includes the convergence of factors that really make us who we are. Let us understand this as a gradient of the human rights theory that argues in favour of acknowledging the multiple facets of our identity that come together to form one compound identity. An intersectional identity essentially means our social identities are multi-dimensional, creating a prism of experiences that is the sum of our parts. Identity is a strange word when you think of it in isolation, suspended on a sunbeam bereft of the granular structural differences we grow up with. I wrote a few paragraphs and realized that this would be the first time I would be writing as a Muslim woman. A few weeks ago, I was asked to write on the gendered communal ire faced by Muslim women in light of the ‘Sulli Deals’ incident.
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