Furore after top Bollywood star attends student demo

One of Bollywood's top stars sparked a social media storm yesterday, attracting admiration and vitriol after showing solidarity with students who were attacked at a Indian university this week. Deepika Padukone, 34, the country's top-earning female celebrity according to Forbes India, broke the mould when she attended a demonstration in New Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Tuesday evening. The protest came two days after masked attackers went on a rampage inside the campus, leaving 34 students and faculty members injured. The violence at JNU is the latest in a series of clashes that have killed at least two dozen people amid protests over a controversial new citizenship law Modi's government passed in December.