Watch | Being Hindu in Bangladesh is Not a Black and White Story

Deepak Kumar Goswami is a Bangladeshi stage and film actor. He is also a Hindu. Like many of his compatriots, he took part in the popular uprising that led eventually to the ouster of Sheikh Hasina and her authoritarian Awami League government on August 5, 2024.

As Hasina fled to New Delhi, a narrative began emerging from India’s establishment media that the peoples’ movement was actually an Islamist revolt and that Bangladesh’s Hindu population was being targeted and terrorised.

Acutely aware of the fact that minorities “live under constant psychological pressure everywhere”, he set out to make a short documentary separating fact from fiction and capturing what really happened to Bangladesh’s Hindus after Hasina’s ouster. This is his film.

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