Stopped from Screening Gujarat Riots Documentary, JNU Students Watch It on Laptop
18 December 2024 | The Indian Express
Despite an official advisory from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) cautioning students against screening the BBC documentary, ‘India: The Modi Question’, the event proceeded with students watching it on a laptop at Ganga dhaba on the campus Tuesday night. This came after security guards on the campus interrupted the screening on an LCD screen by blocking the projector.
The documentary focuses on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and his then-state government’s response to the 2002 Gujarat riots. In 2023, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting blocked YouTube videos of the documentary as well as tweets linked to the videos…