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i’m curious about this quote from the Indian Express article:

On Saturday, 302 eminent citizens comprising retired judges, bureaucrats (including 33 former ambassadors) and 156 retired Army officers, wrote a letter against the BBC, calling it “the archetype of British past imperialism in India setting itself up as both judge and jury, to resurrect Hindu-Muslim tensions that were overwhelmingly the creation of the British Raj policy of divide and rule”.

It’s Modi propaganda to convince anyone that those tensions are a thing of the past, and belong only to the legacy of colonialism.  Fascism today holds plenty of responsibility for the conditional tension between Muslim and Hindu people in India.  But I’m curious about if these people who wrote the BBC are all Indian officials or they are from other countries? It’s kind of vague but idk
Advertisement doesn't get any better than this, I am not even Indian and now I want to see it. >

Or vpn? >

You need a bbc account, I’ve made one before where I needed to give a random uk zipcode and solemnly declared I paid my tv license. Edit: still works after a password reset, watching now from the Netherlands with VPN. >

What I I'm not endowed well enough for a bbc account? >

It's free. >

Yeah just send them a dick pic and they will email you your login information. >

I tried, got an auto reply saying, "while you submission is indeed large, it is not dark enough. "   should I apply bronzer and re-submit? >

Send it in sepia >

It’s not Mexico they are looking for >

Streisand effect incoming >

Already there. r/India is brimming with links to download and watch it. >

Reddit is not representative of the average Indian.  Modi is very popular in India and most agree with what he did in Kashmir based off pretty much every poll I've seen.
Modi was in the US and selling out 50K stadiums a couple years ago.
He is very popular >

Source of the polls? >

> In the other countries, the sample size ranges from roughly 500-5,000.
You could litreally find this many people in my small hometown which dosent even exist in the Indian map here. India is highly polarized some states love mode some states hate modi , each of the states has rough population of whole brazil >

(Good) polling typically tries to take account of that be picking a representable, diverse sample. >

How to make sure people watch a documentary 101 >

Reminds me of a story I heard about a bible class, teacher says they want to skip “Song of Solomon” because it’s mostly about sex. Next days starts class with “now that you’ve all read it, let’s discuss ‘Song of Solomon’” >

This will have exactly the opposite effect lol. University will now learn what Streisand effect is. >

~~I'm~~ I wouldn't at all be surprised if a lot of officials at the University don't care if students see the film, and know full well that this will lead to more seeing it. It could be malicious compliance on action. Or, they're just covering themselves, and don't generally care either way. >

On the contrary, I think universities will take great pleasure in exercising any amount of control they can over the students. Schools like JNU are very few, and most of the administrators take great pleasure in enforcing pointless rules. >

Well, then they're just morons I guess. >

“Don’t look behind the curtain”, said the great and powerful oz. >

Bot >

Well now I want to watch this documentary on Modi. >

It's also on TPB, with enough seeders, for those that are into that sort of thing. >

Modi, allow me to introduce you to Barbara Streisand. >

Whooooo ooo ooo oooo oooooooo oo Barbara Streisand. >

Is this amazing or is this amazing? >

Ah I don't have a TV license so I can't watch it on BBC... /s >

Watch for the van outside with the TV Aerial sticking out of the roof >

If they get caught watching it then their student terms will be Modified >

But only Modistly. >

Time to find a new Modis Operandi >

Take your upboat and fuck off! >

I wasn't planning on watching this, now I am. >

yeah I've got it open in iplayer now. >

Why?   What are you scared off?  You don't believe in free speech then? >

Correct. Next question. >

Our dear leader doesn't take questions from journalists anymore. Not in a long time. The last time I believe was one where he stormed out in the middle when a journalist brought up the Gujarat riots. >

American here. Could someone explain this? >

Haven't watched the documentary myself. The documentary is about the Godhra riots in the Indian state of Gujarat. The chief minister of Gujarat at that time was Narendra Modi, the current PM of India. He had been widely criticised for his role during the riots. Though many cases were filed against him, the judiciary system has largely maintained that he is not responsible for it. Now the BBC has taken a more critical take on it and Mr. Modi is worried and has sought to ban the documentary. >


the judiciary system has largely maintained that he is not responsible for it.

How convenient that they just so happened to clear him of all responsibility a week after he was elected PM :))) >

Not surprised at all. I also don't exactly blame the people on the SIT. I wouldn't exactly wanna fuck with someone capable of doing what he did right after he just got the highest power in the country >

Not exactly the timeline.
2002 - Incident. 
2006 - Repeat incident on smaller scale
2008 - SIT created
2008 - Police records destroyed
2012 - SIT Closure Report
2014 - Modi wins National elections >

Fair enough, thanks for clarifying! >

India has banned this video all over the country >

Why? >

Thank you.

Officials said the documentary has been found to be “undermining the sovereignty and integrity of India” and has “the potential to adversely impact” the country’s “friendly relations with foreign states” and “public order within the country"

So what?  History is history. >

Modi and his government are a 24x7 PR machine. Their fragile egos can't handle criticism. >

Why is it that dictators always have the thinnest skins? >

Not to defend Modi, but India is the largest democracy in the world. That's what makes this action even worse. >

Just because a country has elections doesn't make it democratic. You know who else has elections? Turkey. >

Then by that logic all populist democracies are dictatorships and therefore democracy is flawed/pointless. >

Populist democracies aren't the same as electoral autocracies, though they do have a bunch in common.
Once the autocrat comes to power through elections, he Basically answers to no one, and has free reign to do what he/she wants.
In a proper democracy checks and balances exist, in an electoral autocracy they do not. >

++ actually someone understood sarcasm. >

Current-day education worldwide is going to be looked back at and mocked endlessly if we survive. >

Also, college students, don't drink, have sex, listen to loud music, or smoke weed.
Thank you for your compliance. >

Tbf nobody gives a shit about it at least in the capital Delhi. My landlady even told me that try not to disturb people when you have friends over. She was very surprised when she visited one day and didn't find anyone in my bedroom lol >

You should try living in the south 😢 >

Yeah tbf I can see that. A little more open in Bangalore though, Bangalore is pretty liberal. But then I've lived in liberal cities a lot. Kolkata was probably the most open among them. There are a ridiculous amount of people doing whatever they want sexually and nobody cares lol. Far cry from Gujarat, the main seat of the ruling party. If these places turn into Gujarat and I have to be vegetarian for the rest of my life I'll leave the country lol >

Yep Bangalore is much more open than the rest of the states in the south. People mind their own shit over there that's something I love about that place. 
The people from my state (Kerala) are so darn nosy, I once brought a couple of my friends and there were a couple of girls also over to my house for lunch and within minutes my mom gets a call from my bitch of my neighbour telling her that I am having a party over at the house with some random girls.
After that whole ordeal my mom was like I shouldn't do stuff like this if i didn't want my name to be sullied by society ( this sounds better in Malayalam). >

Indian University ensures every student will now watch documentary. >

Nah this is probably the most politically heated University 
A lot of top politicians come from here as well as top political castes. Most students just will stay away from this shi*.
Not to mention the reason that it is not being aired is the hardcore hindutav support that is there in the campus which constantly battles the left wing orgs in the campus. >

I mean, I’m not* even in India, and the news of this ban has reached my ears and convinced me to watch the BBC documentary. 
I’m 100% sure “just saying nothing” would have led to fewer people watching this than releasing the statement to ban it. >

Truly regarded! >

Assholes in charge cannot abide their assholery being exposed.  It might disturb the little people.