A little more than four out of five of Delhi’s nearly 34 million residents are Hindus.
A little less than one in seven are Muslims.
In Old Delhi, however, Muslims are the “majority” population.
Old Delhi is ethnically and culturally very diverse.
So is India as a whole.
Neither India’s Hindu “majority” nor its Muslim “minority” – the largest of its various religiously-affiliated “minorities” – is “uniform” or “monolithic”.
Bigotry and prejudice – and their total absence – are evident in the actual behaviour of adherents of whatever “Faith”, as they are among agnostics and atheists.
Q: Knowing all those things, how do you “read” this post’s (unposed, entirely “candid”) photo, taken in a very busy street?
A: That is entirely up to you.
That said, I would note that the pictured individual was not “escorted” by a male, and that her demeanour was that of a confident individual who was not lacking “agency”.
As a “stranger” who has visited many, diverse places, I would suggest that one would do well to avoid making instant assumptions about any individual – most especially, instant assumptions that may be “triggered” when one is “confronted” by the visible manifestations of humankind’s many different notions of what constitutes “appropriate” dress.
A person’s garb does not necessarily tell you anything about that individual’s character…or their “lot”.
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