On a December night last year, a Bangladeshi Hindu garment worker, Dipu Chandra Das, was killed by a mob in Mymensingh after allegations of blasphemy. Butso was the script: violent content arrives, context collapses, and the country begins to ‘feel’ its way to conclusions. But then the story mutated into something else: an Indian story about trust. Repeated on screens, violent videos frame the Other as a threat, trigger panic, and erode the trust that holds a diverse nation together. Her forthcoming book is Forwarded as Received: How Misinformation Turns Viral, Violent, and True

Source: The Telegraph March 05, 2026 02:24 UTC