Deepak Kumar Goswami is a Bangladeshi stage and film actor. He is also a Hindu. Like many of his compatriots, he took part in the popular uprising that led eventually to the ouster of Sheikh Hasina and her authoritarian Awami League government on August 5, 2024. As Hasina fled to New Delhi, a narrative began emerging from India’s establishment media that the peoples’ movement was actually an Islamist revolt and that Bangladesh’s Hindu population was being targeted and terrorised. Acutely aware o