From the Editor’s Desk BJP’s Dangerous Polarizing Games Is glorification of Queen Padmavati’s fictional self-Immolation more political than cultural? By Meena Yeggina
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
charismatic trio Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mel- vani. The main aim of these three young rebels is to remove BJP from power to curtail the hardships of Patels, Dalits and minorities.
irrationally and illiterately conser- vative right wing Bharatiya Janta Party headed by none other than the RSS Pracharak and current Prime Minister Narendra Modi is recently being dominated by the young Rahul Gandhi, assisted by
Padmavati, a movie starring Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali is due on De- cember 1st closely followed by the prestigious Gujarat elections. Gu- jarat, a closely guarded forte of the
Though we don’t know for sure, Bhansali’s Rani Padmavati seems like a glorified Rajput wife dedicated to her husband and Jauhar
Rani Padmavati was a Sri Lankan Princess as depicted in the fictional poem by Malik Muhammad Jayasi
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