Explore the controversy surrounding Annapoorani, a movie that has sparked outrage among the Hindu right. Learn about the FIR filed, the role of Netflix India, and the larger debate on freedom of expression.
A week after hitting the OTT, the film ran into trouble after a section of people started circulating some scenes of the film, which they said were promoting 'love jihad' and were "anti-Hindu".
Inside the Hindu IT Cell: The men who went online to protect gods
âWe donât target people who are good. We target people who are targeting Hindus, targeting Hindutva, targeting India. Itâs their fault.â
Shambhavi Thakur
In the summer of 2020, with India locked down to slow the spread of the Covid pandemic, the Narendra Modi government decided to switch on some nostalgia: it ordered
Doordarshan to replay two popular 1990s TV shows based on the Hindu epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. The minister for information and broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar, declared the state broadcaster was doing so on popular demand.