: Here are five things ‘The Kashmir Files’ gets wrong about Kashmir #IndiaNEWS The Kashmir Files, directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, is not just another film. It claims to be hidden history and

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Here are five things ‘The Kashmir Files’ gets wrong about Kashmir #IndiaNEWS
The Kashmir Files, directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, is not just another film. It claims to be hidden history and patriotic duty rolled into one. State governments have announced tax breaks to encourage Indians to watch the film. Government employees can get leave if they produce tickets for the film.Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself certified the film’s truth-telling properties, saying it put history in the “right perspective� and had rattled the whole “jamaat�, or gang, that went on about freedom of expression. Modi added that the “ecosystem� that had worked to suppress the “truth� for so long was now opposing the film.The film seems to be rooted in this grievance – that a certain view of history has been left out of textbooks and academic institutions. It offers a blood-soaked account of the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, targeted by militants and forced to flee the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s. After three decades of bitterness and recrimination, many facts from that turbulent time have become unknowable. Recorded histories are incomplete. Memory is not always reliable. Agnihotri makes use of this epistemic haze to repeat distortions and manipulations of the past that have long cropped up in WhatsApp forwards.A film that does not claim to...Read more

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