The burden of being Muslim

Mr Owaisi believes everyone - not Muslims alone - must fight for secularism

For Asaduddin Owaisi, chief of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), it’s another day and another FIR. This time, it is registered by Delhi police. Mr Owaisi calls it “balance-vaad” on the part of the police: He is in the company of 30 other people, including Yati Narasinghanand, who called for the genocide of Muslims, and Nupur Sharma, former general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who said what she said. On his part, he still doesn’t know which exact tweet prompted the FIR.

But then, Mr Owaisi never holds back from poking the bear. Days after the BJP’s historic