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#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep #AssamKilling

Lets start with a quiz question: how many of you know of Bijoy Shankar Bonia? My guess is that most of you don’t until I show you this photo. That right my friend, Bijoy Shankar Bonia is the photographer whose photo has gone viral, the photo of Bonia jumping, stomping and dancing over the dead body of a man who had just been shot dead by the Assam police during an eviction drive in Sipajhar in Assam’s Darrang district.

#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep #india@75

As India enters its 75th year of independence, it’s a fitting time to unveil a dream of a ‘better’ India. An India where harmony prevails over hate; where those who target any citizen for their religion, caste, community, region, are prosecuted and convicted for hate speech. Hate cannot be ‘normalised’ in any manner or the culture of impunity promoted under the guise of tedious what-aboutery of competing religious identities.