India’s response to BBC's ‘The Modi Question’

The Indian government’s decision to ban a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, which left more than a thousand people dead, has become its own story.

It has drawn global attention to Modi’s record in office and the subsequent decline of media freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

Contributors:
Maya Mirchandani - Journalist, The Wire
Mitali Saran - Writer and columnist
Shruti Kapila - Professor of Indian history and global political thought, University of Cambridge
Sanjay Kapoor - Editor, HardNews Magazine

On our radar:
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Striking Back: United Kingdom's unions vs the media:
With the United Kingdom in a state of political disarray, a wave of work stoppages has put trade unions, and the media’s treatment of them, into the spotlight. One particular union leader, Mick Lynch, has flipped the script, putting journalists on the defensive for their habitual anti-union approach. Daniel Turi reports on the coverage of labour issues in the British media.

Contributors:
Aditya Chakrabortty - Senior economics commentator, The Guardian
Julia Langdon - Former political editor, The Sunday Telegraph; former political editor, The Daily Mirror; chairwoman, British Journalism Review
Nicholas Jones - Former industrial correspondent, BBC
Mick Lynch - General secretary, RMT Union

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On The Listening Post this week:

Why India banned the BBC’s Modi documentary
The London lawyers aiding Putin’s allies
The UK press vs the labour movement

[socialanarchy]

All news journalists and broadcasters should publicly disclose what their annual take-home is, that way the public knows whose interests they really represent.

[junnatha]

jazeera is good. would be excellent if they also reported unbiased and dig into Qatar itself, or at least commended those who do

[viveksutar]

How much propaganda do you want to spread*
Al Jazeera --. Yes*

[human]

The main problem is western countries want a puppet leader in india 🇮🇳
PM Modi isn't a puppet 🤣

[Nxtzues]

Pls change the name of documentry divide and rule rakh do yaar ☕

[Nehas]

Al fakeera 😂😂😂pm Modi and India obsession, China paying al fakeera too??

[skyinearth]

Meanwhile Adani trying to make NDTV like Al Jazeera 🤣🤣

[rjbdhrv]

AL Fakerra tum log jaa k hillao🤣🤣🤣🤣🙏🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 i love my india, and AS AN INDIAN I AM AGAINST ANYONE WHO TALK AGAINST MY NATION AND MY GOVERNMENT, AS A TRUE INDIAN ITS MY FOREMOST DUTY ! DONT POINT FINGER TOWARDS MY NATION, OR ELSE IT WILL BE VERY BAD 🙏🙏🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 I LOVE MY INDIA🇮🇳

[somyatripathy]

Look who is saying… aljajeera …. You people will come to your knee, just wait few years… max next 15 yrs

[unconsciousmarty]

We should make documentaries pn brits like kohinoor and colonial loot 😂😂😂😂

[भारतीयसंचार]

Why bbc not make Documentary on india British colonialism in India and sho British ture color...

[ASH]

Hindu Nationalist Modi 😀
HISTORIC LINE 🙏
All Indian's are Sanatani 🕉

[ebrahim]

Modi how many people killed that can't says

[Ilovetravel]

Funniest joke of the year.
- bbc bring in the table something that indian journalists couldn’t . 🤣🤣
Their must have some limit of hypocrisy and biased narratives

[crouchingcats]

Bad & bias.Hate mongering against Modi

[LuciferMorningstar-bjcf]

Please make a documentry on how many people died in making stadiums in Fifa WC

[YouTubeDoctorr]

Ok ok! Ask Hindus situation in Pakistan!? Compare 1950 Hindus population in Pakistan and now

[aws]

Even the Court judges are not free from Modi's rador.

The cheif justice of India (Ranjan Gogoi)who gave verdict in Babri Masjid demolition case in the favour of Modi govt was gifted with an MP post.

A justice who scraped a police complaint against Amit Shah (Modi's partner in crimes) in a fake encounter killing case, was given governor post right after his retirementm

The CBI director (R.K Raghavan) who headed the investigation against Gujarat riot issued a clean chit to Modi was coronated as an Indian High commissioner to Cyprus.

A Delhi high court (S.Murlidhar) judge who ordered the police to investigate the involvement of a BJP MP during Delhi riot case was transfered overnight.

A police officer (Sanjiv Bhat) who filled an affidavit against Modi was sentence to life in a 30 years old custodial death case.

[vvbhat]

we Indians know the truth ...we don't need WEST preachings on y we vote him for good