New Delhi, March 31 -- As communal hate is on the rise through the use of history in political battlegrounds, new dimensions are being added to this in the last few years. Apart from the propaganda and indoctrination of Hindutva politics, the mainstream media, particularly many TV channels and now many films have added to the prevailing misconceptions in Indian society.

In the recent past Bollywood movies like Kerala Story, Kashmir Files have gripped society in the mania of hate. There have been other not so successful films like Swatantraveer Savarkar, 72 Hurain, Samrat Prithviraj to name a few. Now Maharashtra in particular and country as a whole film called Chhava, running to packed houses, is taking the hate a few notches up. This fi...