Hyderabad, Aug. 5 -- Hyderabad-based Telugu content creator Ajay Radha Kumar lost access to his Instagram account on Wednesday, August 5, a day after a Hindutva digital creator published his phone number online and triggered a wave of casteist and communal abuse against him. Instagram cited a breach of its intellectual property policy for the suspension, a reason Ajay has disputed, given the timing.

The 23-year-old, who has built a following of over 1 lakh on feminist and Ambedkarite commentary, has spent the past week at the centre of an online harassment campaign by creator TD Rakesh Sharma. The trigger was a video critiquing CJP-protest posters that morphed PM Narendra Modi's face onto women's bodies, content Ajay had criticised for i...