{"id":421381,"date":"2026-01-18T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421381\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:42:08","slug":"truth-of-india-mehbooba-mufti-responds-to-ar-rahmans-communal-remark-shares-realities-of-indian-muslims-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421381\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Truth of India&#8217;: Mehbooba Mufti responds to AR Rahman&#8217;s &#8216;communal&#8217; remark; shares &#8216;realities of Indian Muslims&#8217; | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/126643586.jpg\" alt=\"'Truth of India': Mehbooba Mufti responds to AR Rahman's 'communal' remark; shares 'realities of Indian Muslims'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mehbooba-mufti\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mehbooba Mufti<\/a>, responded to AR Rahman&#8217;s &#8220;communal&#8221; remark, stating that it is the &#8220;truth of India.&#8221; Music composer AR Rahman, in a BBC Asian Network interview, had stated that he has been getting less work in the industry, and he feels it is a &#8220;communal thing.&#8221;In a post on X, Mehbooba Mufti wrote, &#8220;Bollywood has always been a living mini India, mirroring the country\u2019s social realities. Brushing aside such experiences does not change the truth about today\u2019s India.&#8221;When Javed Akhtar dismisses A.R. Rahman\u2019s concerns about the growing communalisation of Bollywood he contradicts lived &amp; shared realities of Indian Muslims including those of his own wife Shabana Azmi, who has openly spoken about being denied housing for being Muslim in a\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MehboobaMufti\/status\/2012764734223749256?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, responded to AR Rahman&#8217;s &#8220;communal&#8221; remark,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[63636,64,63,221817,1348,447,134,8061,1209,6464,8060,221818,44425,124280,3358],"class_list":["post-421381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ar-rahman","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bollywood-communalism","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-indian-muslims-experiences","tag-javed-akhtar","tag-mehbooba-mufti","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}