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The Modi Question Calls for Press Truth Above all Else

The Modi Question Calls for Press Truth Above all Else

WASHINGTON – The National Press Club’s Journalism Institute last evening hosted a condensed showing of the controversial BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question. The two-part documentary banned in India tells the story of the 2002 riot that saw Hindu extremists attack the Muslim section of Gujarat killing thousands of Muslim Indians. The riot took place in the aftermath of an[Read More…]

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BBC Documentary and Freedom of Expression in India

BBC Documentary and Freedom of Expression in India

The survey of Income tax on BBC offices in India, which were started on 14th February (2023) were stopped after three days. While IT department called it a ‘survey’, many columnists and agencies like Amnesty International called it a raid. The global media linked it to the release of BBC documentary, ‘India: The Modi question’. It was yet another attack[Read More…]

by 22/02/2023 Comments are Disabled India
BBC Raid: An attempt to suppress the voice of the media

BBC Raid: An attempt to suppress the voice of the media

In India, which is said to be the world’s largest democracy, media and its freedom have been considered indispensable. But after income tax raids on several print and electronic media organizations in recent years, the Delhi-Mumbai offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have now come under the income tax department’s radar. The opposition has alleged that central government agencies[Read More…]

by 18/02/2023 Comments are Disabled India
Unanswered Questions

Unanswered Questions

The fog enveloping both the subjects discussed in my last article has not cleared thanks to the studied silence of the accused.If Hindenburgh Research is to be believed, Adani’s 413 page is not much of an answer as it allegedly fudges or skips over key issues.We are only spectators in the game but we are keen that things should be[Read More…]

by 03/02/2023 Comments are Disabled India
Why, the Fascists Fear a Documentary?

Why, the Fascists Fear a Documentary?

The political campuses of India are in turmoil.Since the past week, we are witnessing all over India, a widespread political unrest in universities like JNU, Jamia, HCU, DU etc. where the students screened the BBC’s Documentary, India: The Modi Question. The most reactionary, neo-fascist modi government and RSS forces retaliated this move of students by using highly nefarious means, by[Read More…]

by 31/01/2023 Comments are Disabled India
Documentary questioning Modi shown in Canada on Gauri Lankesh’s birthday

Documentary questioning Modi shown in Canada on Gauri Lankesh’s birthday

Radical Desi organized the free screening of a BBC film which has created a sensation in India on Sunday, January 29 in Surrey, BC. The two episodes of India: The Modi Question, remain out of bounds in the world’s so called largest democracy. Not only has the right wing Hindu nationalist BJP government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi restricted its[Read More…]

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People Can Be Killed, But Not Their Voices…!

People Can Be Killed, But Not Their Voices…!

This holds true for millions who have fallen victim in their quest for their rights and for peace. And also for thousands targeted – killed and raped- during Gujarat-carnage in 2002. What else is suggested by “news” linked with what happened in Gujarat during 2002 hitting headlines once again? Notwithstanding the measures taken to prevent public screening of BBC documentary[Read More…]

by 30/01/2023 Comments are Disabled India
Moment of Reckoning

Moment of Reckoning

It may or may not be a coincidence,but it is surely striking that from two countries regarded as close allies of Prime Minister Modi two quite alarming missiles have exploded near him and his close friend corporate magnate Gautam Adani.The BBC documentary directly holds him responsible for letting the ghastly pogrom of 2002 happen in Gujarat during his watch as[Read More…]

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Condemn the Indian Government’s attempt to stop screening of the BBC documentary

Condemn the Indian Government’s attempt to stop screening of the BBC documentary

Condemn the Indian Government’s attempt to stop screening of the documentary movie by the BBC on the role of Narendra Modi in the Gujarat Riot of 2002. Condemn the JNU administration’s choking of democratic space inside the campus The recently broadcast, “India: The Modi Question” (first part) is a BBC-made documentary on Narendra Modi and the Gujarat genocide of 2002.[Read More…]

by 27/01/2023 Comments are Disabled India
The unanswered Modi question in BBC’s documentary that provokes us to come out and defend humanity

The unanswered Modi question in BBC’s documentary that provokes us to come out and defend humanity

Past the halfway mark in the BBC documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’, Episode 1, is a clip of the BBC reporter interviewing Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, soon after he had called for elections in a state still seething with the fresh wounds of post-Godhra communal riots in 2002. Every question she asks him, including about the violence[Read More…]

by 24/01/2023 Comments are Disabled India
An open letter to Mr Kiren Rijiju, Union Law Minister

An open letter to Mr Kiren Rijiju, Union Law Minister

I am seventy years old. I was born in Quilon, Kerala. I studied in a college in Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district of Kerala. After my graduation, I worked in many cities: Madras, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Bangalore and New Delhi. Now I am in Delhi. I have an Aadhar card, a PAN card and a Passport too, though it has expired now.[Read More…]

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