Before sharing my two cents on the matter, I must clarify that I am conscious of my identity as an Indian who happens to be a ‘Hindu’ man by birth; my views on the controversies in India right now are necessarily articulated from contexts of privilege that I simply cannot escape from (not even if I tried to). This post is addressed, therefore, to those like me, fellow creatures of majoritarian privilege in India. This post does not, and cannot, speak on behalf of Muslims in India (or of South Asia for that matter) or any others on the so-called ‘margins’ of contemporary India today. At most, it speaks – or tries to speak – in solidarity with them.
The Onus Is On Who?
Cutting to it: consider the question of ‘onus’. There are those who accuse protestors against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as being hostile in conversation, dismissive of…