Indian government tries to ban documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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January 27, 2023

Tensions escalated Delhi University after a student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots. (Manish Swarup/AP)

In India, the government is taking extraordinary steps to ban a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Officials have invoked emergency powers to scrub the documentary — which explores Modi's role in deadly anti-Muslim riots that killed more than 1,000 people in 2002 — from social media.

Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes talks with Gerry Shih, India Bureau Chief with our partners at the Washington Post.

This segment aired on January 27, 2023.

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