The ramshackle UP town of Hathras is miles away from Bollywood. While the glittering lights of tinseltown captivate us, we wish grimy Hathras didn’t exist to spoil our fantasies of ‘New India’. Yet it is a nondescript Hathras village which today reveals the abyss between real India and escapist India.
For weeks middle-class India has been stupefied by the TV circus on movie star Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. But it’s now time to pause the politically manufactured TV drama. After weeks of vacuous voyeurism, it’s time for genuine anger.
A 19-year-old Dalit woman from Hathras was brutally assaulted and languished in hospital for two weeks. Not immediately shifted to emergency care, she died of her terrible wounds. The police took over her Read More
