Everyday Revolutions

As a political journalist, Fatima Khan spent years travelling across the country, from Delhi to Karnataka and Assam to Tamil Nadu, covering hate crimes and state-led persecution, the victims of which were primarily Muslim men. What was left out of her notes were the conversations she had with the women who were related to these victims. She saw how Muslim women were becoming politicized and challenging the state and, in the process, turning their gaze inwards to question the power dynamics within their community. They were doing so strategically, without throwing Muslim men under the bus - a bus whose driver is all too willing to run them over.