T he grief over Assam’s homegrown rockstar Zubeen Garg has mutated into something darker. In the weeks since his seemingly mysterious death in Singapore, the court of public opinion is calling conspiracy. And the outrage is not dissimilar from what we saw in another celebrity’s demise—that of Sushant Singh Rajput. The Bollywood heartthrob’s suicide led to a frenzy—online violence that was marketed as grief.

However, while the debate surrounding Rajput’s death was both conjured and performed by the mainstream media, in Zubeen’s case, it is a testament to a phenomenon. At least 60 police complaints have been lodged with the Assam state police, according to the BBC .

Some say that Zubeen was poisoned. A video of the singer struggling to breathe was shared on social media, a

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