 Hi all. Salvatore here. Apparently the whole Indian Internet knows what film director Nadav Lapid and four other jurors of the 53rd Indian International Film Festival didn't. That the real bad guy Lapid's word in the Kashmir files wasn't the Kashmiri separatist terrorist Farouk Malik Bitta, an obvious portmanteau of Farouk Amadar, Yasin Malik, and Bitta Karate. It was the university professor Radhika Menon, who is so transparently based on the Aruntati Roy that she even mouths Roy's notorious claim that, quote, Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is an historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this. The film portrayed Islamist terrorists in a negative light, as well one should. But anyone who actually watched the film could see that their religion was incidental to the plot. The plot revolved around the Hindu professor Menon, who was the clear antagonist to Krishna, the young hero. In the end, it wasn't the terrorist who got his comeuppance. It was the professor. Call the Kashmir files anti-intellectual propaganda, if you want, but, quote, inner contradictions and, quote, complexities that Lapid found lacking were all to be found in the JNU scenes, not in the scenes set in Kashmir.