Introducing the real Indian secularist; Reality Television

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For over 60 years the Indian government and its huge media machine has been trying to project a unified India. Sometimes bravely, sometimes with little logic, they have sought to create one culture that represents India. If you look at the coverage of Kashmir & the North-East from Doordarshan, you would be led to believe that these regions are the sweetest, most peaceful regions in the world. Their populace spends their time singing and dancing and working off the land. In a genre of film making that died with the soviet era, we see a strange cinematic parody of sub-cultures mixed with very poor quality documentary film making creating a lost in space and time feeling. In reality these regions have been the centre of bitter struggles, and the populace has suffered first at the hands of indifferent governments and then at the hands of rebels turned terrorists....