It is wrong to say "there is nothing new" in the #BBCDocumentary about Modi. Sure, all the facts are known. But they haven't been distilled into one hour with that proficiency, focus, and evidence this way ever before. It is BBC at its best! What editing!!
Having seen it and digested it, I'm even more impressed. And eager for part 2.
No wonder Modi just wants to wipe it off the internet. It is such a clinically and dispassionately laid out case, they can only respond with random conspiracy theories.
No wonder Modi just wants to wipe it off the internet. It is such a clinically and dispassionately laid out case, they can only respond with random conspiracy theories.
Swapan Dasgupta does a sincere but ineffective job of trying to rebut all the charges. It's just such obvious talking points that he himself doesn't believe in. At the end of the day, he is like, court said it's cool.
The documentary also does a great job laying out the Dawood family case. They went for investigation updates and went to the crime scene and found actual remains still there! 😳
The police had not done anything. Of course the UK foreign office got involved!
The police had not done anything. Of course the UK foreign office got involved!
When your citizen dies in a foreign country, by law, you're supposed to investigate. When my father in law passed away in India, we had to get a lot of detailed paperwork from the hospital to certify his death as natural causes so US consulate could "close" the file.
There is nothing "colonial" about that report. Even when Indian citizens are murdered abroad, the Indian MEA has to write similar reports.
The Dawood family were UK citizens murdered with the local police not even having done a forensic sweep weeks later!
The Dawood family were UK citizens murdered with the local police not even having done a forensic sweep weeks later!
It's also interesting in the #BBCDocumentary he goes from very genial laughing polite with McGivering to this very "angry Hanuman" type theatrical peevishness when disputing basic facts.
The only play fascists know. Pre-emptively getting offended & turning questions around.
The only play fascists know. Pre-emptively getting offended & turning questions around.
This theatrically adversarial on screen relationship with journalists was unheard of in Indian politics until Modi made it a thing, apeing US conservatives. Until Modi, all interviews were civil and politicians answered questions, didn't question the questioners. That's Nixonism.
It's also a play Trump used to devastating effect. Attacking the media at every rally. Even as media kept covering his undermining of them.
Modi was doing it years before Trump cos he, like Trump, is originally a product of TV studios and media. He knows how the sausage is made.
Modi was doing it years before Trump cos he, like Trump, is originally a product of TV studios and media. He knows how the sausage is made.
"Don't lecture us 😡😡" - is the basic summary of any sanghi rebuttal to any criticism. They have no positive or first principle defense. Why it's so telling that they are bringing up Churchill's cruelty and the pointless Iraq War in their rebuttals.
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