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.