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After trolls targeted actress Faria Abdullah’s Muslim background, questioned her faith, and went as far as labeling her a "kafir" (infidel), she said her family is deeply secular and that her father is a converted Muslim who chose Islam out of personal conviction, while her mother found inspiration in Hindu spirituality.

At the rally for which the FIR has been filed, Mamata Banerjee had hit out at what she called “political atrocities” being inflicted on her party’s supporters in West Bengal, alleging these were being orchestrated “at the initiative of the BJP.”

Immediately after regaining consciousness at the hospital, 28-year-old Manjeet Kaur asked for her statement to be recorded, but police did not come to do so. Now, after her death, the case would go to court on her mother’s statement to police.

When we strip away the noise raised by Kangana Ranaut’s outbursts and Kriti Sanon’s rebuttal, all the brouhaha over the latter’s bralette is about framing. It was a private, lived moment and will always remain so.

Routine editorial disagreement, or outcome of hidden political pressures? With a previous Penguin-commissioned project—the unpublished memoir of former Army Chief General MM Naravane—being surrounded by controversy, the current row over Sonia Gandhi’s memoirs leaves much to be probed into.