The onus of defeating right-wing extremists already falls on Muslim voters. Now liberals expect them to abandon a winning candidate in favour of a social-media celebrity, Kanhaiya Kumar.

Lynching of Muslims under the pretext of cow-protection is over a century old. The increased frequency and reporting can be, in part, attributed to availability of internet and not necessarily a fundamental shift in the fabric of Indian society.

Partition harmed the Indian Muslims most, but to put the blame on Jinnah, or the Muslim League, is not necessarily a correct historical reading.

In the diverse iterations of Iqbal’s iconic 'Sare jahan se achha' in Urdu poetry, varied understandings of 'Hindustan' manifest – but none are narrowly chauvinist.