The Campaign to Silence Bollywood
India’s ruling Hindu nationalists are scapegoating the Hindi film industry to distract the country from Narendra Modi’s failure to control the pandemic.
Rhea Chakraborty, an Indian actor, faced a torrent of misogyny on social media and news television after her boyfriend, an accomplished actor, killed himself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/opinion/bollywood-attack-modi.html
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Rajput, 34, was found dead in June in his Mumbai apartment, triggering a national frenzy with television news channels speculating that Chakraborty drove him to kill himself with cannabis and black magic.
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