The Cancel Oppenheimer movement is mobilizing in India over a sex scene that features a line from Hindu scripture in the Bhagavad Gita.
Bhagavad Gita
During the scene in question, Pugh’s character Tatlock stops during intercourse and picks up a copy of the“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,” Oppenheimer reads as he resumes intercourse with Jean.is thought to have been composed thousands of years ago as part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. It has teachings said to have been given by Lord Sri Krishna to Arjuna, one of the Pandava brothers in the Mahabharata.
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