A mainstream Indian news channel has been slammed after claiming that Indian Muslim men attended the Hindu festival of Navratri in order to “befriend” Hindu women, further amplifying the ‘love jihad’ conspiracy theory, according to activists. AajTak, one of India’s biggest Hindi news channels with hundreds of millions of viewers, ran a segment where the anchor Sudhir Chaudhary claimed, with little evidence, that Muslim men changed their names and took part in Navratri celebrations, a Hindu festival involving traditional dances. ‘Love jihad’ is a pernicious falsehood generally spread to demonis…