India’s Muslim community – part 3: IRP Fellow reports for PRI’s “The World”

Fellows Fall 2009

By Miranda Kennedy

November 26, 2009

Aired on PRI’s “The World”

This week Mumbai is marking the first anniversary of coordinated terrorist attacks on the Indian city. On Thursday, a few big-name movie stars will join an inter-faith ceremony commemorating the dead. Mumbai dominated by Bollywood, and there are many Muslims both behind and in front of the camera. But the film industry rarely depicts their lives – or anything to do with real life, for that matter. In the third and final part of her series on India’s Muslim minority, Miranda Kennedy reports from Bollywood.

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Miranda Kennedy's stories from India were funded by a grant from the International Reporting Project (IRP).

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