India’s Muslims live a state of being with no exit from communal hostility

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For some, death is preferable to living a nightmare, a nightmare where sleep is the only escape, and during the most terrifying of days, no escape at all. Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential play No Exit constructs an image of hell where individuals are confined in a small space with other individuals and forced to interact and engage with one another without pause and without escape. There is no exit from this hell, which for Sartre’s characters is fiction but for India’s Muslims a reality. As Sartre famously wrote and Modi infamously embodies, “Hell is other people.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 413