If any body interested to know about pathetic condition of Indian muslims read the Sacher Committee report. This committee was appointed by Goverment of India to find the social economic and education condition of Indian muslims and reported was submitted to the goverment 2006.
follow the following to read the report and to know the truth.
http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/newsite/sachar/sachar_comm.pdf

I am a avid listener of NPR and World in particular. I was disappointed and taken aback by the use of certian terminlogy and words in context of this article. I am not sure when 1 in 6 people as Muslims and / or 160 million population – which is similar to the population of Entire nation of Pakistan has been considered as “extremely small minority”
Secondly even though there are incidents of violence between Hindu and Muslim communities, the reporter did not venture to investigate that religious minorities are given special reservations in education, jobs and are hence are a integral part of Indian communal thread. Lack of willingness or inherent poverty because of the background cannot be attributed as the widespread reason for the poor state of one community or the other. If the reporter were to compare the number of poor, illiterate people in other religious communities including the majority Hindu community, they would vastly outnumber the previous number. The reporter should be “extremely” careful when using words like “extreme” in comparing living and social conditions of different communities. Everyone can do a google search and find more information, but we come to listen to NPR for a thorough, objective reporting and unbiased investigation