Bebaak Collective’s new report underscores the toll on mental health of institutionalised communalism on Muslims of India
Borrowing from the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the report highlights that Indian Muslims are living in a ‘state of exception’, where they have been abandoned by legal and institutional frameworks, and vilified by an increasingly virulent communalism, with dark clouds of genocidal violence looming in the background. This has had a profound effect on the mental state of the community as a whole, as they struggle to adjust and react to the new normal.