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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents Kunal Puroh
 it\, independent journalist\, documentary filmmaker and podcast creator.Aw
 ay from the gaze of mainstream urban media\, across India’s dusty\, sleepy
  towns\, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of 
 millions—on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics
  to poetry recited in kavi sammelans to social media influencers shaping o
 pinions with their brand of “breaking news” to books rescripting historica
 l events\, “Hindutva Pop” or H-Pop is steadily creating societal acceptabi
 lity for Hindutva’s core beliefs. By cleverly inserting Hindutva into popu
 lar culture\, H-Pop normalizes Islamophobia\, demonizes minorities and vil
 ifies its critics each day\, without ever making headlines.&nbsp\;What mak
 es H-Pop so popular? Who are its stars and its audience? Who is pouring in
  the money\, the effort and the resources to produce and broadcast it? Wha
 t is its impact on the BJP and Prime Minister Modi’s popularity? And what 
 kind of an India is it trying to create? These are some of the questions t
 hat award-winning independent journalist Kunal Purohit explores in this ri
 veting investigative book as he travels through India\, profiling some of 
 H-Pop’s most prolific and popular creators—its stars and celebrities.Kunal
  Purohit is an award-winning independent journalist\, documentary filmmake
 r and podcast creator. Over the past two decades\, Kunal has written on is
 sues of development\, politics\, inequality and the rise of Hindu national
 ism. He is the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Civ
 ic Journalism (2012)\, the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting (2014) and 
 the UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitive Reporting (2014 and 2019
 ). Kunal has an M.Sc. in development studies from the School of Oriental a
 nd African Studies\, University of London and a bachelor’s in mass media f
 rom Mumbai University. Some of his recent notable works include the podcas
 t “Vanished: Inside India’s Bermuda Triangle” (2022) and the documentary f
 ilm “The Children of Nowhere” (2023).
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SUMMARY:Book Talk | ‘H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars’
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center 
 presents<strong> </strong>Kunal Purohit\, independent journalist\, documen
 tary filmmaker and podcast creator.</p><p><span style="background-color: r
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 al\; caret-color: auto\; white-space: inherit">Away from the gaze of mains
 tream urban media\, across India’s dusty\, sleepy towns\, a brand of popul
 ar culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions—on the internet 
 and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics to poetry recited in kav
 i sammelans to social media influencers shaping opinions with their brand 
 of “breaking news” to books rescripting historical events\, “Hindutva Pop”
  or H-Pop is steadily creating societal acceptability for Hindutva’s core 
 beliefs. By cleverly inserting Hindutva into popular culture\, H-Pop norma
 lizes Islamophobia\, demonizes minorities and vilifies its critics each da
 y\, without ever making headlines.&nbsp\;</span></p><p><span style="backgr
 ound-color: rgba(0\, 0\, 0\, 0)\; color: inherit\; font-family: inherit\; 
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 at makes H-Pop so popular? Who are its stars and its audience? Who is pour
 ing in the money\, the effort and the resources to produce and broadcast i
 t? What is its impact on the BJP and Prime Minister Modi’s popularity? And
  what kind of an India is it trying to create? These are some of the quest
 ions that award-winning independent journalist Kunal Purohit explores in t
 his riveting investigative book as he travels through India\, profiling so
 me of H-Pop’s most prolific and popular creators—its stars and celebrities
 .</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0\, 0\, 0\, 0)\; color:
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 t-color: auto\; white-space: inherit"> is an award-winning independent jou
 rnalist\, documentary filmmaker and podcast creator. Over the past two dec
 ades\, Kunal has written on issues of development\, politics\, inequality 
 and the rise of Hindu nationalism. He is the recipient of the Ramnath Goen
 ka Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism (2012)\, the Statesman Award f
 or Rural Reporting (2014) and the UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sens
 itive Reporting (2014 and 2019). </span></p><p><span style="background-col
 or: rgba(0\, 0\, 0\, 0)\; color: inherit\; font-family: inherit\; font-siz
 e: inherit\; text-align: inherit\; text-transform: inherit\; word-spacing:
  normal\; caret-color: auto\; white-space: inherit">Kunal has an M.Sc. in 
 development studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies\, Univ
 ersity of London and a bachelor’s in mass media from Mumbai University. So
 me of his recent notable works include the podcast “Vanished: Inside India
 ’s Bermuda Triangle” (2022) and the documentary film “The Children of Nowh
 ere” (2023).</span></p>
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