An exclusive excerpt from Vivek Agnihotri's latest book, Who killed Shastri, that investigates the mysterious death of independent India’s second prime minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, from all possible angles.
It’s not as if movies have lost their edge as agents of conditioning, but what has changed is how the average audience refuses to drink the Kool-Aid of yore with the same enthusiasm.
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has made a sensation with his movie The Tashkent Files. Speaking with Rohit E David, Agnihotri discussed Congress reactions, freedom of expression under the BJP and his opposition to 'urban Naxals'.
Critics refusing to review a film, calling it 'propaganda' and boycotting it, evokes a bunch of people refusing to do their job. Or to do it with complete honesty.
Agnihotri makes an attempt to point to how easy it has been to wipe out Shastri's life (even death) from public memory.
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Why is it important to find out how Lal Bahadur Shastri died 53 years ago? And who can this impact politically today? Vivek Agnihotri explains.
Lal Bahadur Shastri's death has been one of the most intriguing mysteries in Indian politics. But what's not mysterious is how his tale has popped up again, just before 2019's Lok Sabha elections!
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Twitter admitted that it has been profiling its users, monitoring them actively through artificial intelligence, ranking them, restricting them and also making them 'disappear' at times.
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Unlike the first, second and third generations of warfare, this warfare intends to destroy a state from within.
The ongoing Twitter exercise will serve just one purpose — ensure the continued relevance of a failed filmmaker.