Fraternity love is more important than ever right now: Actor Prakash Raj

Pratiksha Ghosh | NT

Bengaluru: Among film personalities, actor-producer Prakash Raj has been highly vocal about ‘how the film fraternity unites to find a common goal of fighting fascism in the film industry today’.

The actor expressed his thoughts and spoke his heart out at the ‘The Wire Dialogues’ held at St. John’s Medical College auditorium in Bengaluru.

He took a jibe at the current political administration stating, “It is more important in the current context because of the one person, who has described himself as ‘fakir,’”.

He also talked about how France was a nation that protested the police shooting of Nahel Merzouk, and lamented that India had no such equivalent example.

Further he opined that, “Fear has become a national disease and that the nation lacks brotherhood is evident from the unrest and turmoil in Manipur and Haryana”.

Adding to his speech, he also highlighted that the rise of inequality needs to end and foster fraternity among the people. The event began with Sufi songs by Shabnam Virmani of the Kabir Project, which aims at a multidimensional picture of Kabir's poetry.

The artists’ explanation of Kabir's dohas provided a fresh viewpoint on the conversation concerning fraternity and brotherhood.

Following the soulful renditions the actor agreed with the viewpoint.

“The rise of inequality needs to end to foster fraternity among the people. Politicians come and go. We remain permanent. Politics is us. It is our money,” the actor concluded.