Mujibur Rehman’s erudite book Shikwa-e-Hind ostensibly takes its title from the famous poems Shikwa (Complaint) and Jawaab-e-Shikwa (Reply to the Complaint) by leading Indian Muslim philosopher and Urdu poet Muhammed Iqbal, where Iqbal complains to God about the condition of Muslims in this world and God replies (especially since Iqbal was facing heat from the orthodox at his sceptical Complaint). Indian Muslims in our own time have much to complain about, even if, increasingly, they seem to be complaining less. Many who did — especially during the Shaheen Bagh protests against the CAB and NRC — are still behind bars. While Rehman points out the “Muslim abandonment politics” of the Rightist parties, he also appears to have omitted the very mention of Muslim political prisoners such as Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima and numerous others in his book on the political future of Indian Muslims.