Public perception often characterizes specific localities within a particular city through otherizing discourses based on class, caste, religion, infrastructure, and other considerations. The Muslim-dominated areas within Kolkata have long been subjected to such otherizing discourses partly because of the lingering trauma associated with the partition and partly because of subsequent riots and attendant communal discourses which have also created the provocative misnomer, ‘Mini-Pakistan’ for certain Muslim localities. These circumstances have led to the characterization of these areas as defamiliarized spaces that are either considered to be unsafe dominated by illegal practices or extremely distant from the other parts of Kolkata. The image of this urban social space is acted on not in terms of its physical reality but in terms of the mental pictures that people of distant localities have built up gradually. Such a complex multidimensional process of spatial identity crisis reflects a typical example of a glocalized sense of fear and distress about that particular space where cultural relativity is neglected and a distinctive demarcated otherized zone has evolved. In this context, an attempt has been made to study the mental maps as perceived by the residents of Kolkata away from these localities to identify and analyse the factors responsible for creating a false identity of these spaces, to compare and contrast the perceived scenario of these spaces with other parts of Kolkata, and finally to apply the solidarity approach to deal with these misconceptions.