Unseen Bollywood film a flashpoint for intolerance in India

Though not yet released, ‘Padmavati’, about a queen Indians consider sacred, but who might never have existed, has been violently condemned, says Shashi Tharoor.

Though not yet released, ‘Padmavati’, about a queen Indians consider sacred, but who might never have existed, has been violently condemned, says Shashi Tharoor.

CULTURE and history have become new battlegrounds in India. Debates over the Taj Mahal as a symbol of multicultural India have yet to be settled, yet the nation is being torn apart by another cultural controversy, this time over a film.