This volume articulates all those suppressed voices that speak of the everyday and the Commonplace. Instead of the frightening monolith of popular perception, the Muslim who emerges from within the pages of this volume is one who can, indeed has for centuries, lived in harmony with people of other faiths. The Indian Muslim seen here is indeed the inheritor of the great Indian civilization and the great Indian tradition of living together separately in a plural society. Writers represented in this volume include David Lelyveld, Halide Edib, M.Mujeeb, Alam Khundmiri, Rafiq Zakaria, Aziz Ahmad and Wilayat Ali ‘Bambooque’ among others.