The government diktat to ‘block’ streaming has only resulted in fanning interest in the documentary with students across campuses battling police action to see and show the BBC series
Irony died a painful death on Friday. The day Prime Minister Narendra Modi told students during his ‘Pareeksha Par Charcha’ programme in New Delhi that “criticism is an absolute condition and a Shuddhi Yagna (purification ritual) for a prosperous democracy,” the police cracked down on students just a few kilometres away at the Delhi University campus for trying to screen a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The documentary, blocked on various social media platforms under instructions from the Union government, is critical of Modi, who was the Gujarat chief…
