The dangerous outcome of such narratives is that they rehabilitate the very justifications once used to legitimise massacres like the Moplah riots of 1921, Direct Action Day, and the Noakhali genocide.
Criticising MK Gandhi's decisions does not make one a 'Godse bhakt', one can criticise Gandhi and not condone actions by Godse of murdering someone - that is what rationality is, something Indian 'liberals' refuse to see.
CBFC has been stonewalling the upcoming Malayalam film ‘Puzha Muthal Puzha Vare’, revolving around the Malabar Genocide of Hindus, by filmmaker Ali Akbar aka Ramasimhan
Upcoming Malayalam film ‘Puzha Muthal Puzha Vare’ by filmmaker Ali Akbar who changed his name to Ramasimhan Aboobakker after reconverting to Hinduism, has been stalled after the CBFC has imposed several cuts
J Nandakumar believes that the communist and Islamist historians who have tried to distort Indian history, have also glorified the 1921 Moplah massacre, depicting it as a freedom struggle