This poem titled ‘Hindustani Musalmaan’ by Hussain Haidry is a powerful reminder of how every Hindustani Muslim is as much Indian than anyone else. Our cuisines, rituals, gods and customs might be different, but at the end of the day, we are breathing the same air, getting stuck in the same traffic, laughing at the same jokes on television, crying at the same moments in the movie halls, and slogging in the same job.
Performing at Kommune India, which is a storytelling platform started by Ankur Tiwari, Gaurav Kapoor and Roshan Abbas, Haidry—who is a lyricist-screenwriter by choice and CA-MBA by qualification— makes a hard-hitting point.