In five years, India’s largest minority has been cleaved from basic entitlements of democratic citizenship | The Indian Express

In five years, India’s largest minority has been cleaved from basic entitlements of democratic citizenship | The Indian Express

Written by Shah Alam Khan |Updated: April 18, 2019 9:13:51 am

The writer is professor, department of orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The views expressed are personal.

In five years, India’s largest minority has been cleaved from basic entitlements of democratic citizenship

The Muslims of India are different than their brethren in other parts of the world because they are the only Muslims on the planet (except Turkey) who have cherished 72 years of uninterrupted democracy.

It doesn’t take rocket science to understand how the last five years have seen the cruel erosion of justice, particularly for Muslim citizens.

It has been difficult to be a Muslim in India in the last five years. The risk of violence, loss of life, loss of property and loss of dignity was many times higher than for other citizens, except probably the Dalits. Yet, most of our public discourse in these five years, whether through a Left or Right prism, was centred around the political dispensation which came to power in 2014.