Mass Blindings, Recast As Heroism: Chauhaan & Bollywood’s New Turn To Anti-Kashmiri Propaganda
As Bollywood's propaganda films move from inventing conspiracies to minimising documented state violence, Chauhaan recasts one of Kashmir's most controversial crowd-control weapons—the pellet gun or pump-action shotgun—as a symbol of heroism, overlooking the evidence of its human cost: thousands wounded and about 1,000 blinded.
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-1648475483-072bb6c482204ac6bd2437761428cca0.jpg?#)
