Kunal Purohit

Mumbai

Independent Journalist and Researcher at Freelance

Independent Journalist | Author of HPop: Inside the Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars | @SOAS alumnus l Leads, tips: kunal(dot)[email protected]

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‘Traitors’: Hate-filled songs target Indian Muslims after Kashmir attack

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Kunal Purohit

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Hate-filled songs target Indian Muslims after Kashmir attack

2 weeks ago | aljazeera.com | Kunal Purohit

Mumbai, India - Less than 24 hours after news broke of the April 22 attack, in which gunmen killed 25 tourists and a local pony rider in the Indian-administered Kashmir region, a new song surfaced on Indian YouTube. Its message was unmistakable:We made a mistake by allowing you to stay on, You got your own country, why didn't you leave then? They call us Hindus "kaffirs", Their hearts are full of conspiracies against us.
Special: CCTV, Eyewitnesses Reveal Police Watched as Mob Vandalised Habitat Comedy Club

1 month ago | thewire.in | Kunal Purohit

rights The Wire has learnt that policemen were present at the site and even casually sipped chai while the Shiv Sena-affiliated vandals wreaked havoc. The police did not try to stop the mob or arrest anyone on the spot. A screengrab from the CCTV footage at the Habitat Club, showing a police officer present during the vandalism.
I'm a migrant in the US - what Britons should know about Trump's crackdown

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Kunal Purohit

Since 5 November, when Donald Trump won the presidential polls, Mohini Sharma*, 52, who lives in Maryland, a 40-minute drive from Washington DC, has been anxious and worried. Sharma and her son, both undocumented migrants who arrived in the US on a valid visa nearly two decades ago but were left stranded days after their arrival by their host, have been glued to news updates looking out for immigration raids.
In UP’s Mosque Coverings, a New Chapter From The Hindutva Playbook Unfolds

1 month ago | thewire.in | Kunal Purohit

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Modi's Untraceable Roadmap 2047: '15 Lakh People Consulted', But PMO Has No Papers

Oct 23, 2024 | thewire.in | Kunal Purohit

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The Indians fighting back against religious hate

Sep 2, 2024 | newhumanist.org.uk | Kunal Purohit

Last year, Ayesha Shikalgar was excitedly looking to the future. She and her husband, in their early 30s, were trying for a baby and harbouring dreams of building a business. Their quiet life in the village of Pusesavali, in Maharashtra, seemed to them as idyllic as the Sahyadri mountain ranges nearby. Shikalgar had known Nurul Hasan, a civil engineer, for only a year or so, but the romance felt like it was meant to be.
Reimagining customer experience with an AI first approach

Aug 29, 2024 | etedge-insights.com | Kunal Purohit

Customer experience is no longer a templatised offering; it has metamorphosed into focused, predictive, and responsive services, enhancing customer satisfaction and efficiency. Today, delivering a seamless and unique customer experience is driven by personalisation at scale using AI, ensuring smooth transitions across various touchpoints, and boosting customer engagement. This imperative shift is driven by the need to exceed ever-evolving customer expectations and deliver unparalleled services.
‘Syeda’s life mirrors India,’ says Neha Dixit, author of The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian

Aug 8, 2024 | thehindu.com | Kunal Purohit

Even as chants of ‘Vikshit Bharat’ (Developed India) loudly resonate among the country’s ruling party and policy-making, 80% of India’s workforce remains in the informal economy, working on exploitative wages, without any job security or protection by labour and safety laws. Yet, this overwhelming majority gets invisibilised in corporate-backed newsrooms and popular culture.
Unravelling Ecologies of Hate: Virality and Stardom

Jul 21, 2024 | thebookreviewindia.org | Kunal Purohit

In the first few pages of Kunal Purohit’s H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars, Ramkesh, the father of one of the three protagonists shares a piece of information that locates the central concern of the book: ‘The song had gone viral on WhatsApp ji…Within hours the song spread so far and wide that we started getting videos of people lip-syncing to the song.’ A day before, Ramkesh, a Haryanvi musician, songwriter and popstar, had got his daughter Kavi Singh to sing the lyrics of a...