The move by Sampath against Audrey Truschke, Rohit Chopra and others came a day after the professors wrote a letter falsely accusing him of plagiarism.
"The politics of Gandhi is hollow and noisy. It is the most dishonest politics in the history of Indian polity. Gandhi was the man responsible for eliminating morality from politics and instead introduced commercialism in Indian politics. Politics has been denuded of its virtue", wrote Dr BR Ambedkar
A film based on one of the bloodiest parts of our history is 'too Indian' and 'hateful towards British' to be part of Oscars, as per jury member Indraadip Dasgupta
Narratives are not the truth; rather they nudge you to understand the truth in a particular way. They are never neutral or innocent; they are always strategic.
Abhijit draws from history to show parallels between what is happening in modern post-independence India and what happened to the religions of pre-Christian Europe and pre-Islamic Iran and Egypt, which are relegated to museums now.