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Rafique, 41, shrugs off the label of a `progressive’ single woman – but her story mirrors that of thousands of urban Muslim women now trying to break out of traditional turf, and yet holding on to a deeply rooted faith in the Islamic tradition.~On night, when a Bangalore bar was not shut down even after the midnight deadline, police swooped in. Dozens of people were detained – including Rafique. She sat in a remand home all night, and finally decided: she had to give up that life.~I thought I am destined to be a bar singer. I started going abroad, made a lot of money, the kind of which I had never seen in my life. I just wanted to make money. I used my voice, went to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Muscat,” she said.~Shagufta says she would have even worn a burqa but she would probably get no work in Bollywood.~Now 41, Rafique finds that over the years, she has transformed as a person.~Shagufta was desperate to become a television or film writer, failed – so she sang in bars in India.~“Half of me is into religion, half of it is into what I am doing … This is the only thing I know,” says Shagufta Rafique.~
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