In recent years when I visit my native place i see the burqa clad everywhere like there's no end to it
which is why i posted this on page 2...
indian muslim females in the 60's...
typical indian muslim females now...
this was clearly not the case a decade or two ago where someone from outside wouldn't even realise it's a Muslim majority area.
this too i have saying on pdf... even among my relatives, none wore burqa twenty years ago but now many do.
and why just in india... if you read fatima bhutto's "songs of blood and sword", she mentions that the time her grandfather ( zulfiqar, a sunni ) married a shia irani, there were not many burqa to be seen in pakistan... though i must say, now burqa is more prevalent in india than in pakistan.
Then there's this irritating 24x7 morality preaching while the noise from loud speakers were confined to only Azan calls during my childhood days. And mind you am talking about one of the most literate and well off muslim communities of nation here (read kerala) -.
i suppose kerala is a worse case now, along with bangalore, hyderabad, uttar pradesh and madhya pradesh ( bhopal ).
where i live, there is no all 24x7 morality preaching but certainly the full friday prayers are put on loudspeaker and during festival prayers too... this is other than azaan.
twenty years ago, there were not too many mosques but now there are 300,000+ mosques in india, the highest in the world... some years ago, a government website ( indian tourism ) gave the mosque count as 100,000+... so it is a increase of 200,000 mosques in just a few years.
i believe, jamal abdul nasser had banned loudspeakers in egypt for a while... well, there was no such muslim leader in india in those days or even now ( unless i get a chance ).
in these days of most people keeping cell phones, azaan should be sent as sms... it will reduce noise and will help muslims claim that they want other communities to reduce their religious noise.