India, Jan. 20 -- Deepika Padukone, the highest paid female bollywood actress, standing on 5th January with the JNU students who were brutally attacked by masked assailants, without speaking a word, was one of the strongest protests against the CAA and NRC/NPR. Her silence was more powerful than the mesmerizing speeches of PM Narendra Modi. The Indian express editorial on 10th January lauded the stand taken by Deepika. "Her presence itself was eloquent testimony to a fundamental shift in the relationship between the film industry and society at large, generational as much as political", wrote the editorial.
Dr. Raghuram Rajan, the former RBI Governor, deeply appreciated the audacious act of Deepika. Without naming Ms Padukone, he said des...