"The Way Forward is the Only Exit": Payal Kapadia on A Night of Knowing Nothing

In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Gajendra Chauhan, a B-list actor and member of the right-wing BPJ (Bharayita Janata Party), as chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India. Recognizing this as yet another BPJ maneuver to saffronize (rewrite with right-wing policies and Hindu-nationalist agendas) curriculums, students protested and struck. Police arrested and tortured such dissenters across national institutes; administrations hiked up entry exam fees and cut nonconformi...