Episode 6 – Senior Fellow at the Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
ANI Podcast with Smita Prakash
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The Right Wing Is Having a Rethink
There is a rethink among educated Muslims who feel that there was an elite which was speaking on our behalf. They may not agree with what just one group of Muslims have to say. Similarly, the right wing Hindu narrative is also that you know what has been said so far was the left capture of history. We want to rewrite it. But then there is a pushback to say you can't rewrite history. The same thing like we've talked about academia. We've talked about media. We're talking about think tanks. There's this whole movement against Bollywood that ban certain actors for what they have said. It sounds a little bizarre sometimes that you go to that extreme that you're banning
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