Kashmir and Bollywood: an insightful study by LFK

Legal Forum for Kashmir has come up with another insightful study on Kashmir: Kashmir and Bollywood: Hindu Nationalism, Islamophobia And Obfuscation of the Military Occupation. It states: “The occupied region of Kashmir and India’s Mumbai-based Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood, share a long history of relationship. In the Indian official imagination, Kashmir remains an integral part of the India for various contradictory reason, reflecting the very contradictions of the Indian nationalism itself. For the Hindu nationalist or Hindutva ideology, India primarily is a Hindu nation, and Kashmir is the crown to this Hindu nation for the latter’s Hindu Brahmanic past. Even today, in the Hindutva dominated nation, Bollywood continues to work as a conduit to transmit the fantasies of Hindu nationalism.