““Face Death Smiling”: Gandhi’s advice to Hindus and his normalization of Islamist Violence amid Massacres”, The Commune Mag, September 14, 2025:

“The Bengal Files film has brought to focus some of the dark chapters of Indian history, especially the circumstances around the Direct Action Day. This brings us to the topic of how the attitude of the so-called “father of the nation” was towards Hindu women amid a genocide. Let us also take a look at the instances of MK Gandhi making statements against Hindus and asking them to be submissive to Muslims.

Social media users shared videos/clippings from the film The Bengal Files – scene of the interaction between Gopal Patha and Mahatma Gandhi regarding the 1946 Noakhali genocide of Hindus, women especially, in the film have gone viral.

In the scene, Gandhi is shown telling women to embrace death rather than resist sexual assault, advice that is now being widely circulated in the form of archival newspaper clippings and references from Gandhi’s own collected works………”

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