1. Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a Hindutva commentator.
16 Facts About Madhu Kishwar
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Madhu Kishwar is currently employed as a chair Professor in the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
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Madhu Kishwar has been awarded the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediaperson in 1985.
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Madhu Kishwar was born in 1951 in Delhi, into a family of partition refugees from present-day Pakistan.
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Madhu Kishwar graduated from Miranda House in Delhi, where she was the President of the Student's Union.
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Madhu Kishwar received her postgraduate degree in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
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Madhu Kishwar was a professor and a senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, until retiring in 2016.
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Madhu Kishwar then joined the Indian Council of Social Science Research as the Maulana Azad Professor.
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Madhu Kishwar rejected the charges, describing them as whining of the leftist intellectuals, who were losing their clout.
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Anita Anantharam, an associate professor of Women's Studies at University of Florida, writing over Feminist Media Studies in 2009, deems Madhu Kishwar to subscribe to a brand of aggressively nationalist feminism that takes a highly holistic view of the local society, culture and traditions.
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Madhu Kishwar's views have been challenged and rejected by numerous other feminists.
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Madhu Kishwar was one of the fiercest critics of the highly acclaimed film Fire, which focused a spotlight on the lesbian community in India.
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Madhu Kishwar has been noted for her adulation of Narendra Modi, to the extent of comparing him with Mahatma Gandhi.
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Madhu Kishwar had written a book that absolved him, a then prime-ministerial candidate of any involvement in the 2002 Gujarat riots and praised him as a non-communal politician.
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In 2020, Madhu Kishwar faced backlash on Twitter for her misogynistic remarks against actress Rhea Chakraborty.
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Madhu Kishwar has been accused by left-leaning media outlets of aiding in the propagation of allegedly communal material and to have propagated fake news over numerous occasions, via her Twitter handle.