Through the eyes of Rashida, the narrator, and her brother Suhail, A Dying Banyan explores what it means to be a Muslim in contemporary India. Children of an advocate father-an ordinary man with an extraordinary commitment to secular values-and of an unschooled mother, for whom the Prophet of God and His dispensation are the guiding force of life, their questions about identity are as relevant today as they were in the 1980s when the original Hindi version, Sukha ...
