The Main Bhi Muslim podcast started serendipitously. On the early morning of 24 March 2020, just before the first COVID-19 lockdown was announced, a contingent of Delhi police was busy clearing tents, and temporary structures, reportedly using “coercive force”, at a site that had become iconic—Shaheen Bagh.  After about a hundred days of a peaceful and inclusive sit-in protest as part of the anti-CAA-NRC movement, a fast-spreading virus had brought a sudden end. Many worried that the protest that had reignited the idea of democracy would be forgotten. Among them was Mariyam Haider, a Singapore-based researcher-writer focusing on gender, identity, and culture, following the protests online.  Watching hundreds of Muslim women of all ages gather in Shaheen Bagh, despite facing threats of violence by far-right groups and an armed man opening fire near the tents in February 2020, was the moment Haider felt the urge to understand what her Indian…

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