Was there any immediate reason for your familys conversion to Islam? I asked Sohrab. He replied, No. We were fighting for the last 20 years to stay Hindu. We were not allowed by the Muslims to pray to any Bhagwans murti (sacred icon) all these years. They destroyed the last village temple recently. Still we used to do Puja secretly inside our home. We were shabbily treated by the Muslim majority here. We could not sit with them or fetch water from their wells. We, were in fact living like vermin of gutters. Living in this very house was painful. No help was forthcoming from Hindus in the neighbouring villages. It was about six months back when we finally gave up and become Muslims. It is very hard and painful for us to have given up the faith of our ancestors., he lamented.
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