Now, 61 celebs write to PM on 'selective outrage'

July 26, 2019 11:42

Two days after a group of eminent citizens, including filmmakers, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against "religious identity-based hate crimes", another group of celebrities, including Kangana Ranaut, Prasoon Joshi and Madhur Bhandarkar, have penned an open letter against "selective outrage and false narratives'.

The open letter has been signed by 61 personalities, also including classical dancer and MP Sonal Mansingh, instrumentalist Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri.

On July 23, another open letter expressing concern at the number of "religious identity-based hate crimes" in India, was penned by a group of eminent citizens to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The letter said that 'Jai Shri Ram' has become a provocative war cry with many lynchings taking place in its name.

The July 23 letter, which also stressed that there is "no democracy without dissent", is signed by 49 celebrities from various fields, including filmmakers Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Aparna Sen as well as vocalist Shubha Mudgal, historian Ramchandra Guha and sociologist Ashis Nandy.

"We, as peace loving and proud Indians, are deeply concerned about a number of tragic events that have been happening in recent times in our beloved country," the open letter to Modi said.

"The lynching of Muslims, Dalits and other minorities must be stopped immediately. We were shocked to learn from the NCRB that there have been no less than 840 instances of atrocities against Dalits in the year 2016, and a definite decline in the percentage of convictions," it continued.

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