” Aww, I feel sorry for you. You still have to wear the thingy in this heat”.

“Oh, I bet you’re boiling under your scarf”

“How do you feel wearing that in this heat?”.

You see, I am a Muslim and I wear hijab. No, I wasn’t forced to wear it. I did not just pick it up after my marriage. In other words, my hijab has always been part of my life.

But with the temperature soaring above the bearable comes the same old look, gesture and utterances I felt quite uncomfortable with.