Author Uttaran Das Gupta

Uttaran Das Gupta

Uttaran Das Gupta is a New Delhi-based writer and journalist. He has published a book of poems (Visceral Metropolis, 2017) and a novel (Ritual, 2020). He also writes a weekly column, Frames per Second, for Business Standard, New Delhi. Das Gupta teaches journalism at O P Jindal Global University, Sonipat.

Modi’s Bollywood: How ‘Social Message’ Films Amplify the Indian Government’s Policies

Uttaran Das Gupta

May 2022

On April 16, 2022, violence broke out between the Hindu and Muslim communities on the outskirts of the northern Indian city Roorkee. The Hindus claimed that a procession to celebrate their festival Hanuman Jaya...