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ah, irish manager, welcome to did up the news asia. glad you could join us. the past decade in india has seen the rise of the hindu to a movement. the movement refers to political hid the wisdom which seeks to place the hindu religion at the center of political and social life in india. for many, it also means making india a hindu nation. and providing the soundtrack to this movement is hindus for pop songs, filled with hate and bigotry, primarily against muslims. songs which are thanks to social media, are very popular in india hinterland and with some experts blame for inflaming religious tensions across the country. been a video or tie angel or nicole hummer took her then believe i'd be trans with anti muslim veto.

oh, god, oh. this is the he'd flee wolf hindered my music. sunday patricia is of abilene rosa. oh, and one of the genres most famous voice is to night. he's the star attraction in drug lunch. a village in northern india. ah, fans have travel far to hear him. the authorities dull stood by as the heat speech board for o apnea. gonna have a song with lyrics which says, i'm to langley you at our tenant in this country. why should we don't retail presence of mind? why do you think muslims are? pennington, india, the movie of missile, it's my thinking is when india was divided on religious lines and 1947, then i don't think muslim should have anything here. do them out. they've been allowed to live here, but they're now increasing their population. i want to divide india again and are

sitting on our head. opera. singers like some deep and dead radical songs have consequences. in 2022, a communal riot, broke out after a hindu religious procession turned violent in central india hindered laptop and slogan, yachting was heard and loud speakers before them inside did mall grand riot. many muslim home, so boned down and chop. so lou did downtown at all it up father, it was around 7 piano, me and i got fact of his i 60 people came running it down. we just lifted our children and ran to save our lives, come to nickel, but they will not let them do that. if they don't, they will also burn us. have a medical, la la nevada in the pit in our houses and shops were burnt. oh no, i guess get back all my savings gone up, tom on dalla on melbourne. what is that these madrid louis than they were playing

songs on? the d. j system on gal what other? when they saw the mosque in the crowd stop there, played the songs, and started dancing on the lobby long at the latitude they had swords in their hands on. it's an idea or no mistake after my we do you dangerous sponsibility. when an untoward incident like a riot breaks out after your songs update responsibility been the aberdeen of will daughter's oligarchy, him, the era has ended when hindus could be fool mableton, he or whoever does not accept this. india can leave the country off. if you attack us, we will attack back it. it is an eye for an eye on the balcony. he said dangerous message which finds an impressionable audience. oh, do so new. i don't know him, luna would have been a hindu listened to the song. there's a new energy and excitement that develops this egg. you see good looks like if you watch something for hours up. you go into a trans iowa. dream dition of and she is another popular hindered. flossing,

garden book, her him, those ha noodles most famous song calls on muslims to go to pakistan. he says he was inspired by some deep deep but by yeah. basically maybe sandeep is like my brother, but im hi and my guru a month ago to him that the guy before i met him, i did not know the meaning of him do it for all side of the meaning of being a hindu except that a ha i had muslim friends, but then i saw things clearly. gabby menace cheeseburger i had gotten a one journalist who has observed the scene for years says it's boiling over. the extension is in the environment, it has reached it leave. it is manifested in schools and universities in campuses, among you verse parties, that the government is ignoring it and kinda adobe, the laws to preventive their loss to check it. but uh, if you leave it then tomorrow that we're sitting, you know, you know, kind of,

it is like a tinderbox. even if the authorities do crackdown on him to heat music, it may not be enough to comfort the countries minority muslim population increasingly under threat from he knew nationalism. and that was a small part of a documentary that you can watch on the dw documentary channel on youtube, my colleague, a conscious accent. i was behind the documentary and she joins me now. for more account. you're a very compelling report there from you. can you tell us a bit about who these singers are and where they come from? 8. thank you for having me. the dish are, these singers come from what can be called the hinterlands of india. um, you know, small villages are small towns and i went to meet some of these people are in their state are called with the for the ish, which is the most popular state in india. and it is also very crucial for me to

political parties because it sends the largest number of lawmakers to the parliament are now the singers are hugely popular because they will have struck big by tapping into door laid wing in the wide your la g. r, which has become immensely popular and hordes political capital. so united speak to the ones in northern india. but this phenomenon, i also think is not limited to only one region or one state hindered up, or is also getting popular in the villages and or in small towns of other states like a sam or night. again, different languages as well. ah, so the songs are shared on whatsapp are there played at political rallies and, you know, they're treated or these people are treated as bob stars in these bar up arts, because are they really a lot of power and they're very popular. but other members of political parties as well well, some of them are in some of them are not,

but the ones that i featured in this documentary are members offer vigilante group, which is, um, you know, basically was founded by your gather tonight, who's a chief minister of what the british are, they are pictures of these thing has with a, you know, these ad government functions at political rallies and also the chief minister. so you know, single like them have direct or indirect affiliation to political parties or even larger groups like the r t s, s, or vh b. and so there are connections. there are political patronage that some of the singers enjoy. sort in awareness or in reverse running boudreau is in a sense fermenting this kind of music. well, i mean, if the singers are singing during election campaigning, ah, and it's normalizing heat and division in the society which is useful political gains. i'm not saying it, but this is, this is, this is a reality off of this ecosystem. i'm the seller as

a means to reach to the masses. ah, you know, so the political parties use them, are they not, you know, may be reaching out to people who read election manifesto but they're reaching out to park will you know who, who are helping build or you know, public opinion. so i just think that apart from he'd songs, they're also singing um you know, on other issues which are a unit important all in, in defining policies of the, of the b j b. and you know, some of these are implemented by them, legacy and r c, the uniform civil court. so they're singing on all these things as well. let's talk about this. i handled proper business because you also spoke to a bigger fi spokesperson. i'd like to play that sound bite right now, but he didn't, that body doesn't have any space for any sort of hate. and we do not in good eat it . so if for said songs has been sung by certain singers and dirt,

some people think that they're already dead ogletree and they are very harmful for the peace and harmony of the society. they should go ahead and they shouldn't do file f y r aggies. those single ever of the refers to her 1st information report, essentially of police complained, but a gunshot in these politically charged times. how safe is it to find or hate speech complaint it is not ready safe and not many people actually come out and report on these instances because they are also very scared the pink that they are. they could be an appraisal against them on one pretext or the other. you know, they might not be directly linked to, you know, because, you know, often action against them because of the complaint it could be on, on something like, you know, get sending a bulldozer to their home. oh and calling the the home has a, you know, illegal construction are, but one thing i just want to point out here that it's not only the complaints made

by individuals, organizations that are important, the police, the authorities can actually take a swarm or dog organisms which is basically, ah, that be, are not required of people are not quite in person to make official complaint. ah, police can take active walk ms ins. ah, you know, and they can report and charge people. but this doesn't really happen because a, you know, you sign the document, you also need the police and authorities were like a mule and, and, and we're not really, you know, a didn't hear the heat songs but nothing was like, really are taking place are. so there is some level of a, it seems like institutional acceptance to this phenomenon or what, when this atmosphere of hate and institutional backing due to the world's largest democracy. i mean, it's a, it's a difficult question. there is a lot of division. there is

a lot of polarization right now in the country and it is solving a lot of politic. again, i just feel that you know the childhood where when i grew up, oh you know where in the schools we had songs about secularism. some of these songs and these, these, these words like you know, sex secularism, which is enshrined in the constitution of india. have now become words that are very loosely used to define leg, the liberal left and, and you know that there is a constant attack on, on, you know, when, when reports like these come out. obviously that happened uh with me as well on, on the twitter space. ah, but i just feel that our in, in this context of the division is going to empower you know, the electric and the, this is, this is the electric that goes to ward and the, and the right wing ideology is here to stay or conscious. oksana,

thanks so much for bringing us that her report on thank you so much for that context. thanks so much. thank you. and you can, heather will, to our website d, deborah dot com, forward slash asia where there's other stories from india on the rise of knowledge tend to pop pop, but in the politics as well. remember, as ever you can always follow us on facebook and twitter that does it for today. we're back tomorrow at the same time. see you then goodbye. means um what i am had lana. see? i knew sky. yeah, i am running for president of the republic of beller with

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