If the Censor Board refused to certify the documentary, was he confident that the courts would again come through for him? But in an op-ed he wrote for an Indian newspaper several weeks later, he seemed to have made up his mind. In scenes straight out of a Patwardhan film, women camped out on streets day and night in the cold. “I feel so helpless watching all this on TV,” Patwardhan told me. Patwardhan told me last year that it was becoming difficult to distinguish between Hindutva and Hinduism.

Source: New York Times December 01, 2020 09:56 UTC