By ALIZA NOOR
Lights, Camera….and Hate Speech. In the past few years, India has seen a rapid increase in communal hate speeches and hate content on media and social media. What is surprising that an increasing proportion of hate content is coming from female social media influencers.
In this three part series, The Quint will look at three such women who are firebrand, social media savvy and have become key players in the hate producing machinery.
In the first part of this series, we deep-dive into Hindutva influencer Kajal Hindustani, her trajectory and modus operandi. Kajal’s mission is to “educate” the youth, especially girls, against what she calls Love Jihad. This is a frequently used term in the Hindutva ecosystem but has no legal basis or official proof.
A Self-Proclaimed Crusader Against ‘Love Jihad’
A resident of Jamnagar, Gujarat, her profile on X (formerly Twitter), describes her as an ‘entrepreneur, research analyst, social activist’. On X, she has nearly 189.7K followers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The 41-years old Kajal originally hails from Rajasthan and she moved to Gujarat after marriage. A BCom. graduate, she briefly enrolled in an MBA course in Pune but she left after the first semester. She worked in a corporate organisation as a cluster manager and went into working in a bank. However, due to responsibilities of young children, she left the job.
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