Netflix case highlights India's Islamophobic campaign against interfaith marriages
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, speaks with Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh state Yogi Adityanath
STREAMING corporation Netflix has become embroiled in India’s campaign against so-called “love jihad” after a scene in its hit serialisation of classic novel A Suitable Boy angered officials of the far-right ruling party.
A police case has been filed against two of the company’s top executive for India over a scene in which the story’s protagonist Lata, a Hindu, kisses a Muslim suitor.
It comes in the week that India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, passed a “Hitler-like” law restricting interfaith marriages and slapping jail terms of up to 10 years on anyone found guilty of using marriage to “convert a woman from one religion to another.”
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