Sometimes, surprise sneaks in like a thief lurking in the night. Deepika Padukone’s totally unexpected tryst with the students of JNU, two days after masked goons brutally beat up dissenters, was a stealth bomb that later exploded over a deeply divided country, to the admiration of liberals and hasty, unfounded condemnation by the hyper nationalists. Padukone and her cohorts in Bollywood proved hardened cynics wrong. The cynics have long given up on Bollywood taking a stand on issues of the day, afraid of controversy’s power to affect not just the sacrosanct box office but to invite the unwelcome attention of the Income Tax and ED officials obeying the miffed government’s orders. We have never lived in more polarised times. Protests, mostly peaceful and led by students and women, have continued to sweep across Indian metros and small towns in the wake of passing the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. Even a pliant media could not ignore these spontaneous protests and infectious irreverence of the youth on the march.
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