Under its previous ownership, Twitter complied with demands to remove tweets that criticized Modi’s handling of widespread farmers’ protests in India in 2021. This isn’t the first time Twitter has blocked tweets in India. 20, under the country’s information technology law, which passed in 2021 and extends the Indian government’s censorship powers over social media companies. Twitter said that it had blocked 50 tweets due to a request by India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Jan. Read More: Column: How Bollywood Rolled Over to Hindu Supremacists How Twitter reacted to the ban

While the screening at JNU was interrupted by a power cut, students reportedly handed out QR codes for people to scan so they could stream the film on their mobile phones or laptops.Ībhishek Kumar, a prominent journalist based in India, also tweeted that the documentary was available to view on Telegram, Drive, and Mdisk with the name “Pathaan Full HD.” Paathan is a new movie starring Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan. Many social media users have shared clips on WhatsApp, Telegram, and Twitter, with students screening the documentary on campus. Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of Indian magazine, The Caravan, previously told TIME: “Frankly, the ban has been pretty stupid because it’s attracted far more attention to the documentary than would have been otherwise possible.” How are Indian citizens navigating the ban? Modi denies accusations of personal responsibility for the riots, and his supporters cite a 2013 Supreme Court ruling of there being insufficient evidence to prosecute him. Foreign Office that claims Modi was “directly responsible” for the “climate of impunity” that enabled the violence. The documentary highlighted an unpublished report from the U.K. Revenge attacks led to over 1,000 deaths. After a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was set on fire in the state, and 59 people were killed, grieving citizens blamed Muslims. It focuses at length on the 2002 Gujarat riots-one of the worst outbreaks of religious violence in India’s recent history-that took place while he led the state. 17 and charts Modi’s political rise through the ranks of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and becoming chief minister of the western state of Gujarat.

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