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The Theatre of Fury and Fame

In India today, the archetype of the angry young man has left the cinema and entered the streets. The figure once embodied by Amitabh Bachchan in the 1970s—an individual railing against injustice—has been transformed into a real-life agent of spectacle. Aspirational youth from small towns and peri-urban India often translate frustration and humiliation into violent […]