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Instigators, aplenty!

Malik (Malayalam, 2021) Written and Directed by Mahesh Narayanan The recent Pew survey on religious and cultural attitudes revealed that most Indians respected each other's religion and took pride in their Indian identity. The only sore point was that they showed reluctance to having a person of a different faith as their neighbour. This point must have been exploited by politicians to usurp and stay in power. They try to create animosity between neighbours of other beliefs, use the arm of administrative and policing machinery at their disposal, and continue the legacy left behind by their colonial masters, divide and rule. On the evolutionary scale, it is natural to go from homogeneity to heterogeneity, not backward. But no, not the leaders (and the press too), that is bad for business. The socialist and the generation who have been suckered into the woke culture will not rest till society collapse is complete and anarchy is the flavour of the day. 'Malik' tells the tale o...