Aparna Sen Letter

Filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Aparna Sen today said there should be an independent judicial probe into the violence against anti-Citizenship Act protesters in Uttar Pradesh while adding that they don't support any form of vandalism.

After the Bihar police ordered closure of the sedition case filed against 49 personalities, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over rising incidents of mob lynching, the complainant on Thursday filed a "protest petition" against the police.

More political parties and film bodies on Sunday demanded the withdrawal of the controversial sedition case filed against 49 celebrities after they had expressed concern over rising incidents of mob lynching in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Bihar government has nothing to do with the case against the 49 celebrities who wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July, the state police said on Sunday. State police chief Guptesvar Pandey told NDTV that it was done after an order from a court and there was no reason to panic.

Anybody who says anything against Prime Minister Narendra Modi is thrown into jail, Rahul Gandhi said today, attacking the government over a sedition case against 50 celebrities who had written an open letter to the Prime Minister expressing concern about mob violence.

An FIR (First Information Report) was lodged in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Thursday against nearly 50 celebrities, including Ramachandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concern over the growing incidents of mob killing, police said.

Prominent members of Kolkata's civil society have spoken up again, condemning the "culture of violence and intolerance" that made film-maker Anurag Kashyap quit the microblogging platform Twitter after allegations of threats to his family.

Prominent members of Kolkata's civil society, many of whom were among the 49 people who recently wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against cow-related mob killings, have now written to Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to condemn police action on teachers and the assault on a theatre actor in recent weeks.

Three days after 49 eminent personalities wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concern over incidents of lynching and the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram", 62 others have written their own

Trinamool Congress lawmaker Nusrat Jehan has thanked 49 eminent personalities who wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to protest growing intolerance in the country, and joined them in condemning cow vigilantes who attack people on the basis of rumours of eating beef and cow smuggling. She also criticised the government's "selective sil...

Actor Kaushik Sen, one of 49 personalities who wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on incidents of lynching and the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" into a "war cry", has claimed to have received death threats

Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday said ''award wapsi'' gang has become active again to destabilise the Narendra Modi government after 49 eminent citizens wrote to the prime minister on lynchings and said that ''Jai Shri Ram'' has become a provocative war cry.

Forty-nine eminent personalities including filmmaker Aparna Sen and historian Ramachandra Guha have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, drawing his attention to "a number of tragic events" recently, including incidents of lynching, and the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" into a "war cry".

Filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Aparna Sen today said there should be an independent judicial probe into the violence against anti-Citizenship Act protesters in Uttar Pradesh while adding that they don't support any form of vandalism.

After the Bihar police ordered closure of the sedition case filed against 49 personalities, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over rising incidents of mob lynching, the complainant on Thursday filed a "protest petition" against the police.

More political parties and film bodies on Sunday demanded the withdrawal of the controversial sedition case filed against 49 celebrities after they had expressed concern over rising incidents of mob lynching in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Bihar government has nothing to do with the case against the 49 celebrities who wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July, the state police said on Sunday. State police chief Guptesvar Pandey told NDTV that it was done after an order from a court and there was no reason to panic.

Anybody who says anything against Prime Minister Narendra Modi is thrown into jail, Rahul Gandhi said today, attacking the government over a sedition case against 50 celebrities who had written an open letter to the Prime Minister expressing concern about mob violence.

An FIR (First Information Report) was lodged in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Thursday against nearly 50 celebrities, including Ramachandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concern over the growing incidents of mob killing, police said.

Prominent members of Kolkata's civil society have spoken up again, condemning the "culture of violence and intolerance" that made film-maker Anurag Kashyap quit the microblogging platform Twitter after allegations of threats to his family.

Prominent members of Kolkata's civil society, many of whom were among the 49 people who recently wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against cow-related mob killings, have now written to Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to condemn police action on teachers and the assault on a theatre actor in recent weeks.

Three days after 49 eminent personalities wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concern over incidents of lynching and the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram", 62 others have written their own

Trinamool Congress lawmaker Nusrat Jehan has thanked 49 eminent personalities who wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to protest growing intolerance in the country, and joined them in condemning cow vigilantes who attack people on the basis of rumours of eating beef and cow smuggling. She also criticised the government's "selective sil...

Actor Kaushik Sen, one of 49 personalities who wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on incidents of lynching and the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" into a "war cry", has claimed to have received death threats

Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday said ''award wapsi'' gang has become active again to destabilise the Narendra Modi government after 49 eminent citizens wrote to the prime minister on lynchings and said that ''Jai Shri Ram'' has become a provocative war cry.

Forty-nine eminent personalities including filmmaker Aparna Sen and historian Ramachandra Guha have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, drawing his attention to "a number of tragic events" recently, including incidents of lynching, and the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" into a "war cry".