In the second part of an exclusive interview with India’s greatest living filmmaker Shyam Benegal, he talks about the “Muslim question” and the role of Jawaharlal Nehru in shaping the India of today. He is ambivalent about the role of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in the country’s freedom movement as he speaks with senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
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Link of the recording of the 70-minute deposition on 14 February 2022 by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice (retired) R V Raveendran on allegations of misuse of the Israeli Pegasus spyware on Indian citizens: https://pegasus-india-investigation.in/depositions/paranjoy-guha-thakurta-statement/