Reacting to the raging controversy, director Job Madathil said the play has been staged in the state for the past one year and has already been performed at 17 venues.
Karnataka’s pre-existing malnutrition problem was exacerbated by the pandemic, and successive governments have failed to tackle this crisis effectively, say right to food activists.
The fascistic “law and order” campaign being mounted by Yogi Adityanath, the saffron-clad Hindu supremacist who is Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister, is meant to legitimize state criminality against political opponents of the BJP and the impoverished Muslim minority.
Mahatma Gandhi wrote that he wanted India to be spared of Dyerism, by which he meant that it should not "resort to frightfulness in order to impose her custom on others.”