After an uproar over the trailer of ‘The Kerala Story’, it has been changed on YouTube to state that the movie tells the ‘true stories of three young girls from different parts of Kerala’. So was the earlier claim that 32,000 women had joined the Islamic State fake? Is the film a work of fiction?
According to the US State Department report titled ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2020: India’, “There were 66 known Indian-origin fighters affiliated with ISIS, as of November” (2020).