Prakash Raj in the 2018 video is seen mocking the culture of Ram Leela, that is performed in every village and town in most of North India during Dussehra. Raj is seen equating Ram Leela to child porn.
In a letter dated May 30, 1980, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had written a letter to Pandit Bakhle, then secretary of Swatantrayaveer Savarkar Rashtriya Smarak, hailing Savarkar's contribution to the freedom struggle.
What we saw in Jadavpur University was not a protest, it was a blockade. The intent was not to merely express displeasure but deny entry through violent means.
In his debut book Operation Johar: A Love Story, author and columnist Abhishek Banerjee walks us down the memory lane of left-wing terror in the newly formed Jharkhand.