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n recent times, it has also become very fashionable to call people "anti-national" if they are critical of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government or its policies

Deepika Padukone has been at the receiving end of praises and brickbats for turning up at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) earlier this week to express solidarity with students assaulted by armed miscreants, who breached security to enter the campus last Sunday evening. Some have accused her of using the incident to promote her new film Chhapaak — in which she plays the protagonist, an acid attack survivor. Others have said that her gesture was “bare minimum” from a celebrity at a time when the entire nation has been roiled by protests against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. Yet, some other