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Don't want to be killed like Gauri Lankesh: Humans of Hindutva shuts down

Humans of Hindutva, a Facebook page that lampoons right-wing fundamentalism, was taken down on Thursday evening

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Bhaswar Kumar New Delhi
It appears that some of us still can't handle, or perhaps understand, satire. A popular Facebook page that parodies Right-wing fundamentalism and its adherents reportedly shut down after certain people, apparently unamused by the page's brand of humour, allegedly threatened its creator.  

Humans of Hindutva, a Facebook page that lampoons right-wing fundamentalism, was taken down on Thursday evening. The creator of the Facebook page on Thursday claimed that he had deleted the page because he had received death threats. "I have no desire to end up like Gauri Lankesh or Afrazul Khan," the anonymous creator wrote in a

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