Of Belief and Believers: Abdul Sultan’s Graffiti and Question of Identity, Faith and Security in the Subcontinent.

Eeshan Ali; Nirban Manna

Volume : VI, Issue : VI, June - 2016

Of Belief and Believers: Abdul Sultan’s Graffiti and Question of Identity, Faith and Security in the Subcontinent.

Eeshan Ali, Nirban Manna

Abstract :

 Not all Muslim are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslim! These phrases are the central concept of media about Muslim and terrorism after 9/11. The whole concept of the Islam and the Muslims are determined by the image drawn by the ‘West’. The Indian media has also adapted the same concept of the ‘West’. Here the big question is that whether the tag given by the western world is really applicable to the Indian Muslim. As the civilization of India is a kind of amalgamation of various different civilizations. The people of India belong to the various faiths. The form and content of “Indianess” are sharply different from the other civilizations. The western culture is watched over by the materialism; whereas the Indian culture is punctuated with the spiritualism. Moreover, after partition in 1947, the great division was created among the mass. India was split along the ground of the sentiments and beliefs. This effect of the partition left a mark in the psyche of the people of India. The present paper will seek into the fear and the security of the subcontinent with special reference to Abdul.Sultan P.P.’s The Believers.