A few days after Hindutva leader Kamlesh Tiwari was murdered in Lucknow last year, Bharti made a video titled “I am Hindu and I am scared”. “The doorbell rang early one morning. I went to the door. Three boys were standing there. They looked Muslim, capped, bearded. They said they wanted to talk and asked me to open the door. I told them I didn’t know them so I won’t open the door,” he said. “My place has two doors, one of iron and the other of wood. As I raised my hand to close the second door, one of them took out a long knife and pointed it at me. He said I was using my fingers too much. ‘We will kill you like Kamlesh Tiwari.’ Saying this, one of them started banging on the iron door. I feared they would break open the door. I was in such a situation that I couldn’t even run. I hadn’t felt this much anxiety. I began imagining one of them tying my legs, the other holding my hands, and the third murmuring something in Arabic as he slit my throat to book a room for himself in Jannat.”