Banu’s book importantly also gives voice to India’s marginalised Muslim women and spotlights their existence amidst patriarchal communities, stories that by and large remain buried. As it is, in the hinterland, women are often under-reported — whether due to fear of families being ostracised or because of deep-rooted social conditioning. In an interview with a newspaper, the writer spoke about how she received threatening phone calls in the past after supporting women’s right to offer prayer in mosques.