A filmmaker revisits his images from a 2018 shoot at Bulandshahr, the site of a Hindu nationalist conspiracy that led to the suspicious death of a police officer, to understand how the Hindutva ‘fringe’ becomes mainstream.
by Lalit Vachani
Reading the reportage in The Wire about the horrific provocation that led to the February 2020 rioting in Delhi and the incendiary remarks against Muslims and the Prophet Muhammad by the self-styled sant
Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, I decided to revisit the images of my
meeting with him in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, in December 2018.
https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva
