After an hour and half, while I am having dinner at the hotel, I get a call from one of the students and he tells me that they are being beaten up very badly by the Leftist students. I switch the TV on and the news is everywhere. On all the channels, I am the centre of the news. The fight started with a boy called Sandeep Das. He is a Dalit. Leftist boys asked him why he watched the film despite being a Dalit. He said he liked the movie and liked my speech as it made sense to him and opened his eyes. So, they started beating him up saying this was how he would learn to support them. Then riots
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