I live in a Muslim-dominated area. Some days back during Ramzan there was some disturbance that started taking a communal outlook. My brother and I had gone for an Iftar party in the neighbourhood and were dressed in traditional clothes, that is sherwani and salwar kameez respectively. On returning home, my brother and I were asked to change our clothes to jeans and T-shirt. Now when everything is fine I wonder what was the reason that we were asked to change our clothes and why I didn’t find it odd. Were our clothes giving away our identity and is that identity linked to all kinds of fears and discrimination?
The above essay has been written by a child around your age. What do you think she is trying to convey?
She is trying to convey the situation of communalism where she lived in a Muslim dominated area which suddenly had some violence communal outlook due to which she had to dress-up like Muslims in order to save herself from the danger of being a non-muslim in that area. She also conveys the message that people define your religion with the kind of outfit you are wearing.

Question

I live in a Muslim-dominated area. Some days back during Ramzan there was some disturbance that started taking a communal outlook. My brother and I had gone for an Iftar party in the neighbourhood and were dressed in traditional clothes, that is sherwani and salwar kameez respectively. On returning home, my brother and I were asked to change our clothes to jeans and T-shirt. Now when everything is fine I wonder what was the reason that we were asked to change our clothes and why I didn’t find it odd. Were our clothes giving away our identity and is that identity linked to all kinds of fears and discrimination?
The above essay has been written by a child around your age. What do you think she is trying to convey?

She is trying to convey the situation of communalism where she lived in a Muslim dominated area which suddenly had some violence communal outlook due to which she had to dress-up like Muslims in order to save herself from the danger of being a non-muslim in that area. She also conveys the message that people define your religion with the kind of outfit you are wearing.

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She is trying to convey the situation of communalism where she lived in a Muslim dominated area which suddenly had some violence communal outlook due to which she had to dress-up like Muslims in order to save herself from the danger of being a non-muslim in that area. She also conveys the message that people define your religion with the kind of outfit you are wearing.