For some time, we have known this in Kerala, and I have written about it too. But it is important to keep writing about it. Because the image of the benevolent state in Kerala conceals too much. In fact, a worrying Kerala Story is precisely that of a widening range of insecurities about Muslims, from outright Islamophobia to creeping everyday fears of Muslims.

Why nuanced criticism is so hard to voice in ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ Kerala