My arrest led to a nationwide and even international controversy on the security of the journalists operating in the Bastar region. Till date, many journalists in the region have either gone silent or are operating in the shadows of fear.
Bollywood’s culture of silence sends a subtle message to struggling actresses – “we suffered it, so you gotta suffer it too. If you make it out successful, one day you can pretend to care about the problem.”
It’s laughable to even fleetingly entertain the notion that the opposition is genuinely concerned about India’s economy and its poor. The opposition’s sole concern is politics.
The PM needs to understand that, despite his sky-high public appeal, 2017 is very different from 2014.
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