Anti national Archives

Would Satyajit Ray Be Branded an Anti-National if Pather Panchali Released Today?

Satyajit Ray’s films, starting with Pather Panchali, gave utterance to the suffering that the other, invisible India was going through. In an era of spin doctoring, of twisting statistics and data and rewriting history to fit the narrative of New India, Pather Panchali is exactly the kind of story we would want to distance ourselves from.

Chandrima Pal July 15, 2016

POV

“What Do JNU Students Do All Day?” Ask Economics Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee

Surprisingly, rather than celebrating Abhijit Banerjee’s achievement of winning the Nobel Prize for Economics, some have been deriding him for his “anti-national” credentials. What must sting these critics most is that Banerjee happens to be an alumnus of the most hated-on educational institute in right-wing intellectual circles: Jawaharlal Nehru University.

#VALUE! June 3, 2016

Bollywood

Has Kangana Ranaut Become the Bollywood Bully She Once Fought Against?

At the song launch of her upcoming film, Judgmentall Hai Kya, Kangana Ranaut took on an unsuspecting journalist and accused him of running a smear campaign against her. It’s unfortunate but the actress who was once applauded for being a bold outsider has turned into a tantrum-throwing diva.

Kahini Iyer May 23, 2016

Bollywood

In Josh-Filled 2019 Would Main Hoon Na, Bollywood’s Masala Movie on the Military, Find Any Takers?

Few films seem further from today’s cinemascape of chest-thumping nationalism than the 2004 film Main Hoon Na. The lighthearted patriotic film about “Project Milaap”, an Indo-Pak peace operation would probably be labelled “anti-national” in today’s times.

Kahini Iyer May 6, 2016

POV

The Anti-Bhakt One-Man Army

While other dissenters have tried to distance themselves from the bile spewed by bhakts, Humans of Hindutva stands out from the pack by gladly getting into the mud and wrestling the swine.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 22, 2016