In 2019, protests erupted across India after the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was introduced just before parliamentary elections took place. The act grants expedited Indian citizenship to “illegal” and undocumented migrants belonging to six religious minorities (Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians) who escaped to India from religious persecution in Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before December 31, 2014, even without valid visas or other required paperwork. However, the Act excludes Muslims from availing this benefit, resulting in backlash for the Islamophobic policy. It was introduced along with the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is a list of people who entered India before March 24, 1971, a day before Bangladesh became an independent country. While the register claims to enable the identification and deportation of “illegal” immigrants, it can only identify, apart from Muslims, those without the required documents, an overwhelming majority of whom are women, the poor, marginalised and Indigenous communities, orphans or illiterate people. The CAA and NRC represent two of the many discriminatory laws and policies that have been used to target Muslims in India in a push for a Hindu nation. In what follows, I reflect on my living with and through these policies as an Indian citizen and work through the question of what it means to be a Muslim in India, especially in the current atmosphere of Hindu nationalism and the erosion of the secular fabric of the country.