While reading “Hindustan Is a Dream,” the main thing that stood out to me was the use of poems to accommodate the text. The poems, as well as anecdotes and quotes, add to the more objective narrative of the idea of Hindustan and Islamophobia in India with first-hand communication of the effects it had on people. The second poem recited by Haidry sets up a hopeful message of unity with the speaker being from different places. Then the next poem on pages seven to eight uses the “I am,” repetition to show the persecution of Muslims from the narrator’s perspective. I think the juxtaposition of these two poems is effective in contrasting what could have been with the reality of what it is. For the rest of the interspaced and analyzed poetry, the themes of violence and exclusion are continued, but the “I am a Hindustani Muslim” poem remained in my mind as I kept reading as it is the dream the title of the piece references that have not been achieved but is a dream the text argues is worth continued pursuit as the piece concludes that it is also thought of as a counter to nationalism “formed by relations across difference,”(pg 29). I think this setup was very effective with the poems being a key part of strengthening the argument towards Hindustan over nationalism.