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ah, ah, i'm british manager, welcome to did up their 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 hinder image and 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 bigger trip, primarily against muslims. songs, which of thanks to social media are very popular in india hinterland and read some experts blame for inflaming religious tensions across the country. been the video or tie angel or nicole hummer took her. they leave a beach lines with anti muslim veto.

ah, i this is the heat flee worried of hindered my music sunday patch aria is a rabble rouser. oh, and one of the genres most famous voice is to night. he's the star attraction in drug guns. a village in northern india. ah fans have travel far to hear him. the authorities, dull, stood by as the heat speech poured forth. oh, off me gone. i have a song with lyrics which says, i'm dillon girl, you are a tenant in this country. why should we don't retail presence of mind? why do you think muslims are tenants in india? the media of me? so it's my thinking is when india was divided on religious lines in 1947, then i don't think muslim should have anything here due to mildly been allowed to live here. but they're now increasing their population. want to divide india again

and are sitting on our head i o. singers like some deep and edge 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. hearing was heard and loud speakers before an inside did mall grant riot. many muslim homes still burned down and chop. so lou did downtown lloyd up father. it was around 7 pm. in fact, i thought i did. 60 people came running it down, we just lifted our children and ran to save our lives. golden eagle. but don't let them do that. if they don't, they will also burn us of our medical law, nevada, in the pit in our houses and shops were burnt. oh no, i guess get back all my savings gone. tom on de la one. well, the language is that these meadow didn't even they were playing the songs on the d

. j system on gal. what other, when they saw the mosque in the crowd, stopped 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 for my we do you dangerous sponsibility when an untoward incident, like a diet breaks out after your songs update responsibility. but the afternoon of will daughter delagarza him. the era has ended when hindus could be labeled, but 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 i for, and i love to go to the police. it's a dangerous message which hines 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 again, like if you watch something for hours op, you go into a trans iowa dream dish in of and she is another popular hindered blessing god. in

boca her, him, those ha, new moon, most famous song calls on muslims to go to pakistan. dementia. he says he was inspired by some deep, deep beer is likely maybe sandeep is like my brother, but im hi and my guru a month ago to him to come before i met him. i did not know the meaning of him, do it for loss or the meaning of being a hindu except that a ha, i had muslim friends, but then i saw things clearly gobby menace cheeseburger gaudily. 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 worst part is that the government is ignoring it. kinda delayed the loss to preventive their loss to check it. but uh, if you leave it then tomorrow we are sitting on a, you know, kind of, it is like

a tinderbox. even if the authorities do clark down on him to heat music, it may not be enough to comfort the countries minority muslim population increasingly under threat from hindu 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 excel. 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, ah, and where they come from. i 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 the 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 the right 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 not to gain different languages as well. ah, so these songs are shared on whatsapp are they're played at political rallies and you know, they're treated or these people are treated as bob stars in these bar up arts because 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, 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 artist says, aud vh b. and so there are connections. there are political patronage that some of the singers enjoy. sort in, awareness are in reverse running. bi durbin is in a sense fermenting this kind of music. well, i mean, if the single are singing during election campaigning and it's normalizing, hate and division in the society which is used for political gains. i'm not saying it, but this is, this is, this is a reality off of this ecosystem. this are as

a means to reach to the masses. you know, so the political parties use them. the not, you know, maybe reaching out to people who read election manifesto is, but they're reaching out to you know, who was helping build, you know, public opinion. so i just think that apart from hate songs, they're also thinking, you know, on other issues which are, you know, important to in defining policies of the, of the b, j, p. or, and you know, some of these are implemented by them like the c and r c, the uniform civil court. so they're singing on all these things as well. let's talk about this in the business because you also spoke to a b j b spokesperson. i'd like to play that sound bite right now. but if you didn't, that body doesn't have any space for any sort of hate. and we do not, and good is it? so if for some songs has been sung, why said the sing goes and some people think that they are really dead. ok,

3. and they are very home for low for the fees, and how many of this was, why do they should go ahead and they should do file f. why are these, those signals ever are that if i was to 1st information report, essentially a police complained, but a contract in these politically charged times. how safe is it to file or hate speech complaint? it is not ready safe and not many people actually come out and report on these instances because they're all so very scared they pink that they are. there 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 are, you know, illegal construction are, but one thing i just want to point point out here that it's not only the complaint

made by individuals, organizations that are important, the police, the authorities can actually take our school more 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 organisms. ah, you know, and they can report and charge people. but this doesn't really happen because a, you know, you saw in the documentary also the police and authorities were like a mule then and, and we're not really, you know, a did, we're here the heat, the 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 political 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. ah, and, and you know, i did that i is a constant attack on, on, you know, when, when reports like these come out, obviously that happened with me as well on, on the twitter space. ah, but i just feel that a, in, in this context of a, the division is going to empower, you know, the elected and the, this is, this is the electorate that goes to vote. and the, and the right wing ideology is here to stay are conscious on santa thanks so much

for bringing us the after report. and thank you so much for that context. thanks much. thank you. and you can head over 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. so you then goodbye. ah, green giant with amazing power. the jumper is the largest electric truck in the world. more and more of these battery powered behemoth hit the market every year.

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