Nayanika Mookherjee is a professor of political anthropology in Durham University, UK and author of Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (2015), Birangona (2018) and Irreconciliation (2022).
Rumour is part of politics and society but now it can be magnified and curated at speed in the age of the (un)smart phone. Compared to the digital control of the previous regime what we have now is the information bomb.