Kunal Purohit is an independent journalist, writer and podcaster. In his latest book, H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars, Kunal profiles Hindu radicalisation in popular culture through three primary characters: a singer, a poet and a youtuber. In this interview, he breaks down the ideological, cultural and market
Ziya Us Salam is a veteran journalist and author, currently working as an Associate Editor at the national daily, The Hindu. His latest book, Being Muslim in Hindu India, is a documentation of the increasingly ubiquitous marginalisation and prejudice that the Indian Muslim community is facing in India’s contemporary
Cinema reflects the political context of its times and in India’s contemporary polarised public discourse, state patronage has been extended to the alarming trend of propaganda films like The Kashmir Files or Kerala Story. Films that lend weight to the Hindutva project of otherising the Indian Muslim. In this
The recent rewriting of history books and changing of street names rests on the myth of the ‘Muslim Invader’. An all-pervasive discourse that paints India’s history using the colours of religious identity.
Of all of the marks India is making on the global stage this year, from the moon landing to the G20 Summit, not least of it all is India becoming the most populous country in the world.
Dr. Hilal Ahmed is an associate professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).
Each year at the onset of winter, the problem of air pollution in Delhi takes over. As AQI levels peak and meters turn red, pollution is churned in the news cycle and emergency measures are dealt out. But the substandard air quality in Delhi is not just a winter phenomenon.
