Islamophobia is real for many of us. Sections of Muslims in our country hate the majority community,” Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in an interview during the Lok Sabha election campaign earlier this year. It is not clear that he was talking about himself, but it is an admission of hatred that seems to underlie much of his party’s attitude towards minorities. For instance, the Assembly cancelled the two-hour Friday break to allow Muslim MLAs to offer prayers at the mos