In this episode, we talk with Raza Rumi, journalist, author, policy expert and educator and a close friend of Sadia Dehlvi, who passed away recently after a courageous battle with cancer.

We reminisce different aspects of Sadia's purposeful life as a mother, author, journalist, culinary expert and a student of Sufism.

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My name is Mohib and together with my co-host, Faisal, we appreciate you giving this podcast a chance. I am a digital marketer and photographer. Faisal is a technology professional. Many years back, Faisal and I, along with many others were involved with the Indian Muslims Blog, an award-winning opinion website. Now, we are dipping our toes into a completely different medium.

This podcast will showcase well-known and not so well-known voices within India’s Muslim community and some from outside. At times, we will look back for historical context to better understand contemporary issues. Other times, we will bring forward fresh ideas through our conversations. We will introspect and sometimes will be critical. As we embark on this journey to learn, we hope to inform and educate along the way. We will talk about best practices to tackle difficult issues that can be scaled up. We will highlight individuals and organizations that are doing exemplary work and how their experience can be used by others.

In this first episode, we spend a few minutes to understand the current situation of Indian Muslims. We will explore demographic data, political participation, educational attainment, economic well-being as well as stereotypes associated with the community.

Let’s get started.

Data Sources Used in this episode

Demographics

• Muslim population in India in 2011, by state and union territory -  https://www.statista.com/statistics/616679/muslim-population-by-state-and-union-territory-india/
• Countries in the world by population (2020) -  https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/
• The population of Muslims by Country - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country#Countries

Political Representation

• Muslims in Rajya Sabha by Hilal Ahmed - https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/fellowship/Hilal_Ahmed.pdf

Polygamy

• Polygamy in India - https://www.counterview.net/2016/09/polygamy-in-india-down-in-45-yrs.html
• Polygamous Marriages in India - https://paa2010.princeton.edu/papers/100754
• Muslim women and the surprising facts about polygamy in India - https://scroll.in/article/669083/muslim-women-and-the-surprising-facts-about-polygamy-in-india

Vegetarianism and Non-Vegetarianism

• What India Really Eats - https://thewire.in/food/india-food-eating-vegetarianism
• Vegetarianism is not growing in India - https://www.livemint.com/Politics/dWUqT4epdPTHNAYuKYVThK/No-vegetarianism-is-not-growing-in-India.html
• Most Indian Non-Vegetarian - https://www.indiaspend.com/most-indians-non-vegetarian-men-more-than-women-south-east-most-66469/

We are starting with the launch of three podcast episodes

1. Intro and the Indian Muslims with the hosts Mohib and Faisal
2. Indian Muslim Media and Learning from TwoCircles.net with Kashif-Ul-Huda
3. Assam NRC and its Implications with Aman Wadud