“The BJP’s nationalist politics has not just constantly aimed to attack the individual bodies of Muslims, but also the collective Indian memory of who and what a Muslim stands for.” Opinion | sarah_ather__
2019 was the year when a major historical event unfolded in the US. Footage of the brutal killing of a black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer sent shockwaves across the country and the entire world.
The tragedy of George Floyd, Faizan and Moinul Haque are all equally heart-wrenching. Except Haque or Faizan's death did not move Indian civil society; it was only followed by silence, and tremors of a traumatic memory for those of us who relate with their names. Belonging to a place is precisely in this way different from being merely present in a place. To belong is to feel psychologically safe in a place. To belong, in other words, is to feel your pain resonate in the people around you. A crisis of belonging that we are suffering from today does not solely come from the acts of violence and discrimination directed towards us, it also comes from the banality with which our otherisation has been normalised.
In the recorded post-colonial history of Indian Muslims however, the news of their socio-economic marginalisation has always occupied a small column hidden below the weather box. Being an Indian Muslim today is two things at once: It is the experience of alienation, and also the experience of awakening. There's a certain presence in our subjective sense of being that has come along with this wave of rage. Frantz Fanon wrote: “When the black man plunges something extraordinary happens” - and perhaps, this is that moment for the Indian Muslim today.
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