New: Since 2020, the Disinfo Lab website has attacked US-based critics of the Modi govt while remaining anonymous. A Post investigation found it was formed and run by Lt Col Dibya Satpathy, aka Shakti, now an intelligence officer with R&AW wapo.st/4afUIbT
The group, which once worked out of a 4-story South Delhi office alongside a team headed by an R&AW officer who worked on China/Tibet info campaigns, is mostly private contractors but conceals its ties to the govt. Its initial vision was to be an objective-seeming research entity
Nov 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
New: Under pressure from the Hindu right, Netflix and Amazon in India drop projects touching on political, social issues and documentaries. After "Tandav," Amazon's head went into hiding and surrendered passport. Netflix execs feared risk of arrest. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/…
Today, shows are scoured, re-edited to cut scenes of praying or god names. Greenlit projects like Suketu Mehta's Maximum City are quietly dropped. The RSS told us they don't want negative portrayals of India and Hinduism. "It's invisible censorship," said Anurag Kashyap
Sep 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New: a series of stories from the Post examining how India’s ruling party and its affiliated groups wield social media and technology to cement its power, sow division and drown out dissent…
1. How the BJP and Indian right uses a massive whatsapp pyramid model to spread election material that is often inflammatory and impossible to monitor — a machine that it pioneered and mastered like no party in the world. We went to Karnataka to observe washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/…
Feb 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Our story on the wave of mob attacks on Christian converts in indigenous rural India.
It’s fueled by anger toward wave of Christian evangelism — but also driven by local Hindu nationalist politicians stoking conflict to win elections, which they were quite open about
Villager Jai Singh Potai in the church he built with his own hands that was sledgehammered Jan 12 by a group of 200 angry men, he said
Dec 9, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
An empire built on coal.
He's the world's biggest private developer of coal mines and power plants, with 60% of revenue from coal. Our long read on the world's third richest man, Gautam Adani:
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Basic issue, acc to fmr executives, govt officials, industry analysts and others is Adani is a key driver of India's development, becoming almost too big to fail. But he has the political gravity to keep the world's 3rd largest coal consumer hooked, despite his Green initiatives
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