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Tandav and the dogwhistle of Hinduphobia in Bollywood - Art & Culture

In the recent Amazon series Tandav, a college student named Shiva is introduced as the eponymous Hindu deity in a mock-mythological play. With the celestial sage Narada, he devises social media strategies to counter the increasing popularity of Lord Rama in contemporary India, while the on-screen audience of the play bursts into roars of laughter. Real-life Hindu nationalists in India, on the other hand, were enraged by this satirical sequence. Soon this video clip was made viral on Twitter by Hindutva groups, influencers and their followers as evidence of the show’s ‘Hinduphobia’. The ‘profane’ prospect of a Muslim actor-activist, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, caricaturing the deity intensified the social media agitation. In the following days, the show’s director issued a public apology, and the scene was removed from the series.

India: Government Policies, Actions Target Minorities

Authorities in India have adopted laws and policies that systematically discriminate against Muslims and stigmatize critics of the government, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Updated List of India s Anti-Nationals (According to the Modi Government)

The Updated List of India s Anti-Nationals (According to the Modi Government) Anyone pointing out the Centre’s shortfalls – farmers, lawyers, journalists, comedians, activists, students – is branded not anti-government but anti-national. Demonstrators shout slogans behind police barricades during a protest demanding the release of social activists who, according to them, were arrested by the police for supporting farmers protest against farm laws, in New Delhi, India, February 15, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui Rights19/Feb/2021 Mumbai: It was anybody’s guess that the Narendra Modi-led government would be intolerant of critical voices. Anyone pointing to the government’s shortfalls ought to have been branded anti-government. But the past years saw a decided shift from the “anti- government” perspective to one where anyone critiquing the government was called “anti-national”. And it is not just the usual activists or rational

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