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more-inExpressing concern over the growing danger to freedom of expression, democracy and Constitution, poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar on Friday exhorted film-makers, artists and poets to “fight against divisive forces trying to tear apart the country”. Addressing the 14th Progressive Writers and Artists Association State meet, Mr.
Akhtar said, “our territory is being taken way from us and we have to get it back. We have to stand up through literature, art, theatre, street plays or songs.”Mr.
Akhtar pointed to fascism as a danger to freedom of expression and democracy. “When we talk about secularists in India, the conversation is about majority communalism but is silent about minority communalism,” he said. “An atmosphere of war is being created within our society and rising intolerance is killing democracy,” he said..